Google for it. I did when I needed to. You get some amazing essays. Or you could do it on your own as you read the stanzas.
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Good question! The short answer is, we don't know for sure, because it is never explicitly stated. The slightly longer answer is, there are some clues in the poem itself we can use to draw tentative conclusions. Look first at the complexity...
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he finished his great "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), a meditative poem presenting thoughts conjured up by the sight of a rural graveyard; it is perhaps the most quoted poem in English ...
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9. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r 10. The moping owl does to the moon complain 11. Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, 12. Molest her ancient solitary reign. He is saying it is all very quiet and peaceful (stanza 1 and 2...
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All of the things you say are correct, and in Gray's poem. Mainly, first and foremost, it's because they are equal in death: Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through th...
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In his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray employs the neo-classical use of personification in his poem of strict iambic pentameter with eloquent classical diction. There is a compliance and conformity to the cla...
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was written just before the Romantic Period. He wrote at the same time as Johnson (the compiler of the first English dictionary). This is significant because Gray's work is famous for two re...
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