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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Thomas Gray
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Summary
Themes
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Themes: All Themes
Themes: The Universality of Death
Themes: Social Class and Value
Themes: Rural Life and Remembrance
Themes: Poetry and Posterity
Themes: Mortality
Themes: Equality
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"Far From The Madding Crowd's Ignoble Strife"
"Full Many A Flower Is Born To Blush Unseen"
"Mindful Of The Unhonored Dead"
"Some Mute Inglorious Milton"
"The Curfew Tolls The Knell Of Parting Day"
"The Paths Of Glory Lead But To The Grave"
"The Rude Forefathers Of The Hamlet Sleep"
"The Short And Simple Annals Of The Poor"
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Mortality
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Full Many a Flow'r is Born to Blush Unseen, and Waste Its Sweetness On the Desert Air
The Curfew Tolls the Knell of Parting Day, the Lowing Herd Wind Slowly O'er the Lea, the Plowman Homeward Plods His Weary Way, and Leaves the World to Darkness and to Me
Style
Iambic Pentameter
Genre
Elegy
Setting
Country Churchyard