Elegy Written in a country churchyard

Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was an English poet. He is widely
known for his elegy written in a country
churchyard. The poem opens with the description
of the setting of the poem
 The evening scene around the country
churchyard
 The scene takes place at evening in the
churchyard.
 The ringbell gives the signal that the day is end
 The herds with their bellowing sound walking
over the meadow.
 The farmers are in their way to home after
finishing their work.
 The darkness spreads over the whole place.
 The place which looks so bright in the evening
now becomes invisible.
 The atmosphere holds the complete silence.
 And in the silence atmosphere there is a sound
of a bottle who is flying near the churchyard.
 And an melancholy owl who is complaining to
the moon that an outsider is wandering near
her secret place and also disturs her solitude
mood.

 The burial ground of the rude

forefathers of the helmet.

 There are many graves under the elms trees

and in the shadow of green leaves.
 Each and every ancestors are lying in their
narrow cell of the grave.
 The beauty of the morning, the twittering
sounds of the birds, the morning call of the
cocks nothing can make them arise from
their grave.
 No fire shall burn in the house of the rude-
forefathres.
 No house-wife shall busy in the evening.
 No children shall come to their father for
hugging each other and share love.
  The men shall do their harvesting with their
sickle. The peasants with their furrow has
broken the barren lands.
They are cutting the woods with the axes and
they remain happy with their team work.

 Power of death -----inevitable and

irremediable
 Rich people should not mock to those
hardworking people. They are destined
to do hardwork.
 They are destined to do hardwork.
 Nothing can avoid the power of death
wheather it is the pomp of power or the
sense of superioty. The rich people
shouldn’t blame for their poverty.
 There is no trophy in front of the grave
for the sake of their memory.
 They are not praised by the anthem
song.
 If they are paid by tributes, it will not
effect them. If they are honoured, the
voice will not reach to their ear.
 Possibility of the rude-forefathres of the
hamlet.

 Perhaps they laid in a neglected

spot.
 Some of them are full in passion.
 Some of their hand is made to rule
over the empire.
 Some of them has the ability to
make the lyre alive.
 They stay far away from knowledge.
 Extreme poverty repressed their
ability.
 Many beautiful gems hide in the
deepest of the ocean.
 Many beautiful flowers waste their
charms on the desert.
 Some of them are as fearless as
John Hampden who fought against
the Charles the first.
  May be has the talent like John
milton who doesn’t get for
expressing himself.
 Someone lies there like the political
power of Oliver Cromwell who
doesn’t cause bloodshed in the
land.

 The circumscribed lot of the poor fore-

fathers of the hemlet.

 They are destined to listen the command

of the pilitican.
 There pain and suffering ruin them.
 They are not able to make their country
proud.
 They don’t themselves someone’s
inspiration.
 Their situation make them confined.
 Their virtues are growing and crimes
confined.
  They don’t slaughter anyone for the
throne.
 The don’t shut the door of infancy to
mankind.
 They don’t hide their pain that they got
through their struggling.
 They don’t lead the luxurious life like the
rich people.
 They live far from the crowd place.
 Their wishes are very simple.
 They don’t want to spend their time in
alone.
 They don’t stray from the path of virtue.

 Tombstone on the graves of the poor

fore-fathers.

 They have the desire to protect

themselves from cruel insult by keeping
some sort of money.
 There is some rhymes ,sculpture that
helps a passerby to pay tribute in the
graves.
  Their names and years have been
recored by a little educated girl.
 Instead of this the elegy should be
written on their death.
 The little educated girl added some
holy text like Bible.
 And through this she teaches the other
villagers that they have to be prepared
for death.
 Everyone wants to be remembered
after their death.
 There is no one who doesn’t want to
look behind to his life life.
 While dying everyone was in search of
such person who feels pity in their
death.
 They also except the love from nature.

 The unlettered country muse his nature

life and death
 The poet is very aware regarding those
unhonoured dead person.
 The poet is in hope that one day
someone inquires about the poet who
has not ignored these humble dead
person by narrating their tale.
 Probably some Gray-headed villager
will say that they see the poet to greet
the sun in the early in the morning.
 The used to sit in front of the stream
and admiring the atmosphere.
 The poet sometimes wandering near
the wood, smiling scornfully, talk to
himself about his ideas
 He is someone who is frindless or
frustrated in love.
 One morning the grey-headed villager
couldn’t see the poet on the hill.
 He is not found near his favorite beach
tree