THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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the dead in the churchyard below.
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the Charleston shore.
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the road to Boston.
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the farms in the distance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the end, he imagines that the villager points out the epitaph engraved on the tombstone, and invites the passerby to read it for himself. So basically, Thomas Gray writes his own epitaph at the end of this poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -Metaphor Examples in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: Gray uses these two metaphors to compare the dead in the churchyard to beautiful things that are never seen: a gem in a dark ocean cave and a blooming flower in a barren desert.
Detailed explanation-4: -Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem’s origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray’s thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742.