Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 - 151 sider |
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Side 81
... grave . " The speaker of that line is unregenerate , since the final fifty - two lines of the poem deny the ultimate validity of that popular old saw . All must die in this world , to be sure ; but the grave is only the momentary place ...
... grave . " The speaker of that line is unregenerate , since the final fifty - two lines of the poem deny the ultimate validity of that popular old saw . All must die in this world , to be sure ; but the grave is only the momentary place ...
Side 92
... grave's unyielding passiveness . To resolve the poem is to present action as both possible and desirable . It is to create a clear syntax for a poem whose repeated use of irresolute syntax denies the stability of action ( and of the ...
... grave's unyielding passiveness . To resolve the poem is to present action as both possible and desirable . It is to create a clear syntax for a poem whose repeated use of irresolute syntax denies the stability of action ( and of the ...
Side 109
... grave , " preferring the euphemisms " narrow cell , " or " lowly bed ” —the blunt fact appears only in the metaphorical , aphoristic reminder that " The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave . ' This first of the three principal strands ...
... grave , " preferring the euphemisms " narrow cell , " or " lowly bed ” —the blunt fact appears only in the metaphorical , aphoristic reminder that " The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave . ' This first of the three principal strands ...
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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