Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 - 151 sider |
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Side 109
... Desire for Earthly Memorials , " is corollary to the first theme , the universality of death . Even here , in this country churchyard filled with the poor , the humble , the obscure , the speaker notices the gravestones , " with uncouth ...
... Desire for Earthly Memorials , " is corollary to the first theme , the universality of death . Even here , in this country churchyard filled with the poor , the humble , the obscure , the speaker notices the gravestones , " with uncouth ...
Side 122
... desire to believe in a poetic posterity is belied by the use of death as a leveling defense against the accusation represented by past greatness . If " the paths of glory lead but to the grave , " then the very notion of fame is ...
... desire to believe in a poetic posterity is belied by the use of death as a leveling defense against the accusation represented by past greatness . If " the paths of glory lead but to the grave , " then the very notion of fame is ...
Side 134
... desire for remembrance after death , the poet turns directly to the task of guaranteeing that remem- brance . But predictably , the argument carries him away from the desire for vocal immortality and leads him instead to recognize his ...
... desire for remembrance after death , the poet turns directly to the task of guaranteeing that remem- brance . But predictably , the argument carries him away from the desire for vocal immortality and leads him instead to recognize his ...
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Grays Personal Elegy | 39 |
A Poem of Moral Choice | 69 |
Instability in Grays | 83 |
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anxiety of influence ashes live Bard blazing hearth cast one longing contrast conventional Country Churchyard critics curfew tolls death e'er echo eighteenth-century elegist English Elegy epitaph Eric Smith Eton College Ev'n fame unknown fate final frail memorial Frank Brady glory lead grave Gray Gray's poetry Harold Bloom hoary-headed swain homeward plods Horace Walpole human humble Il Penseroso imaginative Innocence Johnson kindred spirit lines literary live their wonted lonely Contemplation Lycidas lyric meditation melancholy moral mourned mute inglorious Milton narrator narrow cell object obscurity original pastoral elegy paths of glory Penseroso perhaps poem's poet poet's poetic praise present Progress of Poesy Proud quatrain reader rich and poor Richard West rude Forefathers rustics seems sense sonnet speaker stanza suggests syntax thee theme Thomas Gray tion tomb the voice tradition University verb villagers virtues voice of Nature Walpole William Empson William Marsh Rice wonted Fires youth