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A dirge is a 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,--
Wall, for the world's wrong!

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Answer:

Shelley chose a dirge as the title as the poem is about sad things and the word dirge means a funeral song.

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