Thomas Gray wrote “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” in 1742‚ shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West who died from tuberculosis (“Gray‚ Thomas”). The death of his dear friend influenced him to write an elegy‚ which is a poem expressing sorrow or lamentation‚ especially towards one who has died (“Poetry for Students”). An elegy is usually a pensive or reflective poem that can be nostalgic or melancholy (“Elegy”). Gray uses figurative language and detailed description to get
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An analysis on "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" is composed by Thomas Gray.The main idea of this poem is the contemplation of mortality. Thomas Gray’s life was surrounded by loss and death. In 1750‚ the death of his close friend stimulated him to brood on the philosophy of death. An elegy is a poem which lamets the dead. In this poem‚ the poet concentrated on the death of commen people instead of great and famous one. The biggest achivement of
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Q1. Discuss Gray as a transitional poet with special reference to ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The period 1730-1770 marks the beginning from a movement from one distinct phase of English poetry towards another .The poets were getting gradually exhausted with the neoclassical ethics of clarity‚ reason‚ sophistication‚ and etiquette‚ its economic wording‚ ‚rationale and wit. In the literary circle can be perceived the advent of The Romanticism which however customarily began with the publication
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In the old downtown area of Beijing‚ the traditional courtyard houses are quite impressive for the unique charm of the northern Chinese folk residence. The architectural ornaments of the courtyard houses are of distinctive features‚ with some brick carvings or wood carvings dotted on the prominent places such as the screen walls and the lateral walls of the door. The porch‚ flowers-hung gate (chuihua gate‚ the second gate which separates the outer court and the inner court)‚ drum-shaped bearing stone
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troubling lives of different characters. Somewhere throughout each poem‚ the authors create beauty out of a painful experience. Each of these elegies portrays a theme of exile‚ which causes us to feel to a certain extent of each character’s lament. In “The Seafarer”‚ the subject being lamented is him being at sea by himself‚ alone in the middle of nowhere. In this elegy‚ it seemed as if he was lost within in sea and also lost within himself‚ of what he truly feels. For example he says‚ “The sea took me
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Response Essay 1: Annotation of a Poem Poem: Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne Four Items: 1. The time period which it was written 2. Tichborne died the year it was written 3. The commas that create a pause within each line 4. The title Words for Annotation: 1. “prime” – the peak of quality at a certain time Prime is used as a point in Tichborne’s life that is supposed to be fun and adventurous when it seems to only be a “frost of cares”. 2. “tares” – a poisonous plant used in the Bible that
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Who I Aspire To Be (An Elegy of Great Aunt Norma Dell) As we grow older we learn many things from day to day. We learn from experience that life has to end. Remembering someone who has died is very important‚ however. A great way to keep these memories close is to write an elegy about the loved one who has passed. This tradition can be traced back many years‚ even to the times when the Western Roman Empire fell to Germanic tribes in the fifth century A.D. and the age of the Anglo-Saxon civilization
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Subject The themes dealt in the Elegy are familiar‚ and there is nothing original in them. According to Douglas Bush "theElegy is a mosaic of traditional motifs‚ classical and modern." The dominant theme of the poem is death. It deals with the death of the rude fore fathers of the village‚ death as a common occurence in the world and the anticipated death of the youth who may be the poet himself or the his friend West in whose memory the poem has been written. In fact the shadow of death hovers
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Topic: Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi as an Elegy CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 2 Ahmed Ali earned for himself
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Book Review: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis follows the life of first time author‚ J.D. Vance and his experiences growing up in the Hillbilly culture of Jackson‚ Kentucky and Middletown‚ Ohio. As Vance takes you through the journey of his childhood in the Rust Belt of America and the lives of the Appalachian hillbillies in his family tree‚ the book also discusses a common theme: “How much of our
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