Foresong
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Foresong is a noun meaning A song sung as an opener to an event or story; prelude.
Meaning
A song sung as an opener to an event or story; prelude.
Example Sentences
A "Foresong" precedes, and an "Aftersong" follows, but the "Vision" itself is comprised in "A Song of Songs."
But when the speaker resolves his foresong into a claim of predilection for the life (and poetics) of love, he does so.
For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.
Swinburne never published a volume entitled Songs of Democracy, but the third section of “Christmas Antiphones,” “Beyond Church,” is in Swinburne's terms “a foresong of democracy and humanity.”
Word Forms
- foresongs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prelude, forestory, vorspiel, prelusion, preluding, proemium.
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