The Description of the Rude Forefathers in Gray’s Elegy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thomas Gray’s masterpiece, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, brings to light a brilliant character study of the rude forefathers of the hamlet. In the poem, Gray weeps over the unwept and the unhonoured. Sings about the unsung. Gray becomes a historian of “the short and simple annals of the poor” by composing…
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