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THOMAS GRAY

THOMAS GRAY. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. Allusion Stanza Alliteration Tone Rhyme Scheme Meter Imagery. Setting Theme Gothic Imitation Pastoral Elegy. Literary Terms. Thoughts:. What makes a person Ordinary? Why would someone wish to live in anonymity?

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THOMAS GRAY

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  1. THOMAS GRAY ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

  2. Allusion Stanza Alliteration Tone Rhyme Scheme Meter Imagery Setting Theme Gothic Imitation Pastoral Elegy Literary Terms

  3. Thoughts: • What makes a person Ordinary? • Why would someone wish to live in anonymity? • Are the lives of the ‘ordinary’ suitable subjects for serious poetry?

  4. QUESTION #1 • What TONE is established in the first stanza? • What DETAILS create the Tone?

  5. ANSWER #1 • Somber, Sad, Sober, Peaceful • Rhythm, images of Darkness

  6. QUESTION #2 • What is the predominant meter of the poem? • What is the Rhyme Scheme?

  7. ANSWER #2 • Iambic Pentameter • ABAB

  8. QUESTION #3 • Why might Gray include the IMAGES he does in lines 21-28? • What kinds of Images do these people portray?

  9. ANSWER #3 • Emphasize the contrast between the living and the dead. • Common people; farm families

  10. QUESTION #4 • Line 32 is one of the most oft-quoted lines in the Elegy. “The short and simple annals of the poor.” Do you agree that the stories of the poor are short and simple? Explain.

  11. ANSWER #4 • NO- Life is complex… • YES- Poor struggle only to survive day-to-day

  12. QUESTION #5 • What does Gray lament in lines 45-48?

  13. ANSWER #5 • Wasted talent of the poor

  14. QUESTION #6 • In lines 49-52, • To what does Gray attribute the lost ambitions of the previous stanza?

  15. ANSWER #6 • (Poverty) and Lack of Knowledge are Reasons that people did not influence

  16. QUESTION #7 • The last stanza on p602 sums up one of the poet’s general themes. What is that Theme?

  17. ANSWER #7 • Beauty in life is often obscured by its HARSHNESS

  18. QUESTION #8 • Note the historical allusion in lines 57-60: What is a ‘mute Milton’?? (p435) Why does the poet allude to Milton and Cromwell?

  19. ANSWER #8 • Person unable to use language; • Those who died may have been able to achieve what Milton and Cromwell did.

  20. QUESTION #9 • What is the significance of the rhetorical question in lines 85-88?

  21. ANSWER #9 • Emphasizes that Love of Life And Fear of Life are common to the rich and poor alike.

  22. QUESTION #10 • Whom does the poet or speaker address in the last stanza of p603?

  23. ANSWER #10 • Himself

  24. QUESTION #11 • Line 104 shows examples of Alliteration and Imitation. What words in this line represent these Lit. Terms?

  25. ANSWER #11 • Brook, Babble

  26. QUESTION #12 • Whose epitaph concludes the poem?

  27. ANSWER #12 • The speaker’s, the poet’s-- the person who cared to think about those who rested in the cemetery where he himself is now laid.

  28. THE CAPITALIZED WORDS

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