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Title: THOMAS GRAY


1
THOMAS GRAY
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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

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 poets
    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 speakers, the poets--
  • the person who cared to think about those
    who rested in the cemetery where he himself is
    now laid.

28
THE CAPITALIZED WORDS
Ambition Grandeur Memory
Honor Flattery Death
Knowledge Penury Luxury
Pride Forgetfulness Nature
Contemplation Fortune Fame
Melancholy Misery Hope
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