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        <title><![CDATA[Thomas Gray, the poet, employs an extended metaphor in the first 7...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thomas Gray, the poet, employs an extended metaphor in the first 7 stanzas to compare the end of humans' life and the mourning for their loss to the end of a day. His use of colors such as grey, sounds such as animals who are readying for the night or the bell "knelling," and images such as a "mouldering heap" of turf illustrate the close of not only the day but also of a life that will never experience those colors, sounds, or images again.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the figure of speech in "An Elegy Written in a Country...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the figure of speech in "An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" from Lines 1-28?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:13:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[where is the church yard?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[where is the church yard?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:17:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hahahahahahaha
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        <description><![CDATA[hahahahahahaha
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:31:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most salient motif of Thomas is the idea of the Latin...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most salient motif of Thomas is the idea of the Latin phrase that Thomas Gray evokes, momento mori; that is, "Remember that you must die."  As Gray ponders this sentiment, observing the modest graves in the "neglected spot," he concludes that in death there is no difference between the renowned and the common people.
In fact, as the poet continues his contemplation of the unknown people in this churchyard, he reflects that
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:31:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is much in this rather lengthy work that can be appreciated.  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is much in this rather lengthy work that can be appreciated.  The structure of heroic quatrains help to emphasize the purpose of the poem as a musing over the existence of life and the reality of death.  The opening lines bring to mind the image of something coming to its natural end.  The idea of the random visitor who is able to ponder about the nature of mortality and the lives led by others upon seeing a graveyard is a powerful...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:54:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you give an appreciation of the poem?
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you give an appreciation of the poem?
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:54:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To have an elegiac tone, it needs to adequately convey a feeling of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To have an elegiac tone, it needs to adequately convey a feeling of expressing remorse and sadness for something that is past, or lost.  In his poem, Thomas Gray mourns for the lost lives of all of the country people that are buried there.  He does this rather successfully.  He starts right off creating a sad, lonely, morose tone as the last light fades and he is left alone in the graveyard.  The last plowman "leaves the world to darkness...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:49:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The elegiac atmosphere is established immediately in the poem with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The elegiac atmosphere is established immediately in the poem with Gray's description of the countryside surrounding the cemetery and the time of day that makes up the poem's setting. The day is ending:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,


The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,


The plowman homeward plods his weary way,


And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

The reference to "tolls the knell" suggests the slow and deep...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:35:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How far is Thomas Gray successful in creating an elegiac atmosphere in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How far is Thomas Gray successful in creating an elegiac atmosphere in his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:27:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An elegy is a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An elegy is a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead.  Unlike many elegies, however, Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" mourns the death of common men, rather than great or famous people.  In this mourning, Gray reflects upon the classical idea of human mortality as he praises the simple lives of the countryfolk who are buried in the churchyard:

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:51:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is an elegy?
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        <description><![CDATA[What is an elegy?
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray employs the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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 classical form of an elegy as Gray gives his individual estimate of the world, which is, however, a Romantic expression.
The pace of iambic pentameter [an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable 5 times--ta...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:40:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some neo-classical features in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some neo-classical features in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Thomas Gray's "Elegy" there are numerous features common to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Thomas Gray's "Elegy" there are numerous features common to the romantic period and romanticism.
Firstly is the prevalence of nature and its emphasis as being a place where meditation and deeply spiritual epiphanies occur. We look at the poem's imagery and we notice deeply sublime notions such as "drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds" and the "breezy call of incense-breathing morn."
We see the inevitability of death in the ninth stanza...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the romantic features that can be traced in Thomas Grays's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the romantic features that can be traced in Thomas Grays's Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:31:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The setting presented in the first twenty lines of "Elegy Written in a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The setting presented in the first twenty lines of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is of a graveyard at twilight.  The scene is set beautifully with the church bell ringing the ending of the day while the cows head home.  Everything is still except for the night life of the insects and owls.  Suddenly, in line 13 and beyond, Gray reveals that this somber beauty is actually contained not just within the churchyard, but within the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:56:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the scene in the churchyard given in lines 1-20 of "Elegy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the scene in the churchyard given in lines 1-20 of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In imagining what the humble people buried in the country churchyard...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In imagining what the humble people buried in the country churchyard might have become had they been given the opportunity, the speaker uses a series of analogies.  He begins in general terms; he suggests first that one of them, with "heart once pregnant with celestial fire" (line 46), might have been a great ruler or emperor, with "hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed" (line 47).  Another could have been a gifted musician...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the speaker imagine these humble people might have become if...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the speaker imagine these humble people might have become if they'd had the opportunity in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?]]></description>
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