Formal Approach to Thomas Grays Elegy (Eulogy) Written in a Country C

Formal Approach to Thomas Grays Elegy (Eulogy) Written in a Country churchyard Thomas Grays verse form Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a very(prenominal) structured song with a set number of lines per stanza, and a specific rhyme plan throughout the built-in poem. The poem focuses on Grays thoughts while he visits a country churchyard, and ends with an epitaph written on one of the tombstones in the churchyard. The setting of a country churchyard automatic whollyy gives way to a sm tout ensemble and unmapped graveyard, and those that inhabit the graveyard ar not going to be easy known people in the community or in Ameri bath history. Grays form and style allow for the reader to see the churchyard he is in, and the metaphors and symbolism he uses open the mind of the reader to view the human beings in a new way. The form of the poem is a very standard elegy, consisting of four line stanzas and a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b for severally stanza. The form gives a visual image of a graveyard and all the plots lined up in a straight lines row later on row, and in doing so puts the reader into the same setting as he is in. The setting is not only present in the form of the poem, exclusively also in the first few stanzas. The setting is in a churchyard after sunset, and on a very still and silent night. Grays word choice to describe the churchyard present a shining picture, such as Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, and all the commit a solemn stillness holds...(5-6). The reader can escort the images of the sun setting over the land and the stillness of the night air from his perspective in these lines. The rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b gives the reader a genial picture of plots in the graveyard. In the first stanza, for example, the ending words are day, lea, wa... ...eople in animateness might never be seen due to the milieu that they are living in or born into. The irony of the poem is that the greatest things on earth might not be those things that we can see and hold to be the greatest. Grays poem makes a reader get word ones life to truly measure the things that one holds to be great or wonderful, and to look deeper into society to find the truly great things in ones life. Also, he examines that no matter how great a person in life that they will become a just a shapeless cutting (79) with a name, numbers, and a lasting quote that will sum that persons entire life up. Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem that truly explains that there are far greater things in life than what society holds to be great, and that one must justice for oneself what is great or not based on ones own person-to-person experiences.