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    Critical Analysis of The Poem Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray" Dr. JR. Jha Hod English

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    The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray deals with the lives and deaths of ordinary people buried in a country churchyard. It explores themes of mortality, lost potential, and the quiet lives of the poor and ordinary. The poem was inspired by Gray visiting a country churchyard and seeing the graves of villagers.

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    Critical analysis of the poem Elegy Written in a Country

    Churchyard by Thomas Gray"


    Dr. JR. Jha
    Hod English

    Among the most famous and finest elegies in English Literatures '
    Elegy written in a country churchyard' remains immortal. 'Elegy
    written in a Country Churchyard' was penned down by Thomas Gray
    and it is completed around Seven Years. the poem was contemplated
    upon the village of stokes pages after the death of gray's school friend
    'Richard West' and hence the Gray. West is the obscure young person
    who died with his ambition unfulfilled.

    Death the over reaching is the main theme in Elegy Written in


    a country Churchyard, is the inevitable fate of humanity
    regardless of wealth, power, and status. Once the poet visited a
    country Churchyard, where he saw the graves of the forefathers
    of the village seeing their graves, he was moved to sympathy
    for them and set to writing this poem in their honour. Thus the
    poem was inspired by the poet's visit to a country Churchyard,
    So the title is 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard'.

    Gray's elegy deals with the short and simple annals of the poor.
    In fact it gives a complete picture of the life and history of the
    poor people living in the villages. They worked hard on their
    fields all day. When it was evening they walked wearily home
    with their team of Oxen. When their children and wives saw
    them coming, they cook food for them. But they are dead now
    and can no longer to enjoy homely joys. They can no longer to
    enjoy the sweet smell of the morning breeze and they can no
    longer to enjoy the swallows. The house fire no longer to
    burns for them. And their wives and children no longer to wait
    for them in the evening.

    These people were strong study fellows. They could plough the
    hardest ground. Even the biggest tree fell to the strong stroke of
    their axes. Some of them were capable of ruling an empire, and
    some of them were great musicians. But because of their
    poverty, they did not get the opportunity to prove their work.

    Some of these people were brave and fearless like Hampden.


    Some of them were well learned like Milton. And some of them
    were as heroic as Cromwell. But they did not get the
    opportunity to show their worth.
    Those who ambitious to become famous shed a lot of blood to
    rise to power. Because these people had no such ambitions, they
    were saved from living a life of sinful pleasures. They lived
    away from the madding crowd of corrupt people. They lived a
    peaceful and contended life. These people are worthy of our
    respect.

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