A dirge is a funeral song. Why did Shelley choose that title for this poem?


A Dirge

by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Rough wind, that moanest loud

Grief too sad for song;

Wild wind, when sullen cloud

Knells all the night long;


Sad storm, whose tears are vain,

Bare woods, whose branches strain,

Deep caves and dreary main,--

Wail, for the world's wrong!