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graveyard poetry

graveyard poetry noun: a type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.

Noun

graveyard poetry (uncountable)

  1. A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.

Questions about graveyard poetry

What does graveyard poetry mean?
Graveyard poetry means a type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.
What part of speech is graveyard poetry?
Graveyard poetry is a noun.

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