Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Group at eNotes http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/group The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Group at eNotes. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:49:31 en-us <![CDATA[To have an elegiac tone, it needs to adequately convey a feeling of...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:49:31 PST <![CDATA[The elegiac atmosphere is established immediately in the poem with...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:35:25 PST <![CDATA[How far is Thomas Gray successful in creating an elegiac atmosphere in...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/how-far-thomas-gray-successfull-creating-elegic-90715 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:27:15 PST <![CDATA[An elegy is a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-elegy-90509 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-elegy-90509 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:51:23 PST <![CDATA[What is an elegy?  ]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-elegy-90509 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-elegy-90509 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:48 PST <![CDATA[In his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray employs the...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-neo-classical-features-poem-87697 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-neo-classical-features-poem-87697 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:40:06 PST <![CDATA[What are some neo-classical features in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-neo-classical-features-poem-87697 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-neo-classical-features-poem-87697 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:41:55 PST <![CDATA[In Thomas Gray's "Elegy" there are numerous features common to the...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-romantic-features-that-can-traced-thomas-85189 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-romantic-features-that-can-traced-thomas-85189 Thu, 21 May 2009 10:47:16 PST <![CDATA[What are the romantic features that can be traced in Thomas Grays's...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-romantic-features-that-can-traced-thomas-85189 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-romantic-features-that-can-traced-thomas-85189 Thu, 21 May 2009 07:31:48 PST <![CDATA[The setting presented in the first twenty lines of "Elegy Written in a...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-scene-churchyard-given-lines-1-20-81229 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-scene-churchyard-given-lines-1-20-81229 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:56:14 PST <![CDATA[What is the scene in the churchyard given in lines 1-20 of "Elegy...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-scene-churchyard-given-lines-1-20-81229 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-scene-churchyard-given-lines-1-20-81229 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:39:50 PST <![CDATA[In imagining what the humble people buried in the country churchyard...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-imagine-these-humble-people-74965 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-imagine-these-humble-people-74965 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:36 PST <![CDATA[What does the speaker imagine these humble people might have become if...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-imagine-these-humble-people-74965 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-imagine-these-humble-people-74965 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:07:34 PST <![CDATA[The last stanzas of the poem are the epitaph that the speaker himself...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/who-section-labeled-epitaph-end-poem-about-72545 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/who-section-labeled-epitaph-end-poem-about-72545 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:32:27 PST <![CDATA[Who is the section labeled Epitaph, at the end of "Elegy Written in a...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/who-section-labeled-epitaph-end-poem-about-72545 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/who-section-labeled-epitaph-end-poem-about-72545 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:06:17 PST <![CDATA[All of the things you say are correct, and in Gray's poem. Mainly, first...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/why-poor-rich-equal-according-elegy-written-66413 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/why-poor-rich-equal-according-elegy-written-66413 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:59:18 PST <![CDATA[Why are the poor and the rich equal according to "Elegy Written in a...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/why-poor-rich-equal-according-elegy-written-66413 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/why-poor-rich-equal-according-elegy-written-66413 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:59:49 PST <![CDATA[As the narrator visits the graveyard of a country church, he muses on...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/site-differences-between-city-country-life-poem-61033 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/site-differences-between-city-country-life-poem-61033 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:46:07 PST <![CDATA[Cite the differences between city life and country life in "Elegy...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/site-differences-between-city-country-life-poem-61033 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/site-differences-between-city-country-life-poem-61033 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:44:42 PST <![CDATA[In this stanza, the writer of the poem is wondering what would happen if...]]> http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-did-twenty-fifth-stanza-thomas-grays-elegy-58951 http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/q-and-a/what-did-twenty-fifth-stanza-thomas-grays-elegy-58951 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:39:44 PST