what is the theme of it ?
The poem connects with many earlier British poems that contemplate death and seek to make it more familiar and tame
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The poem connects with many earlier British poems that contemplate death and seek to make it more familiar and tame,
who were among the famous graduates of eton mentioned in gray's elegy George Orwell, Karl Marx what is this ? Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem who wrote it ? Thomas Gray
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [SEP] Themes
The poem connects with many earlier British poems that contemplate death and seek to make it more familiar and tame, including Jonathan Swift's satirical "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift". But when compared to other works by the so-called Graveyard poets, such as Blair's "The Grave" (1743), Gray's poem has less emphasis on common images found there. His description of the moon, birds and trees dispels the horror found in them, and he largely avoids mentioning the word "grave", instead using euphemisms. There is a difference in tone between the two versions of the elegy; the early one ends with an emphasis on the narrator joining with the obscure common man, while the later version ends with an emphasis on how it is natural for humans to want to be known.