A Comparison of Thomas Grays Elegy (Eulogy) Written in a Country Churc

A Comparison of Thomas antiques wail (Eulogy) indite in a Country churchyard and Bryants Thanatopsis Thomas Gray and William Cullen Bryant both chose to make unnecessary about nature and death being intertwined. Since Thomas Gray lived in a time of social injustice, he chose to use death to ornawork forcet the problems inherent in a socially stratified society. William Cullen Bryant, on the otherwise hand, lived in a rapidly expanding young nation that cherished the gigantic amounts of untouched nature and he used death to illustrate how globe fits into the universal truth of the earth. However, both men entrustd that death rendered all men equal in that all went to their final resting place in start Natures bosom. While Grays lament pen in a Country Churchyard comes across as a social commentary on the incline peasants and Bryants Thanatopsis serves as a catalog of American Ro homosexualtic beliefs, both believe that one essential listen to nature, that death makes all men equal, and that man returns to nature after death. To compare how the poems minor themes are similar, one must first understand their major themes differences. Elegy differs so greatly from Thanatopsis because they came from immensely different times and countries. Gray wrote Elegy in eighteenth snow England after the death of one of his friends. Influenced by the English Romantics like Gray, Bryant, who fagged much of his time out in the wild, wrote Thanatopsis in praise of natures splendor. Elegy appears at first to be solely about death solely emerges as a social commentary on the plight of the poor. Gray first explains how the commoners delight in the simple life of working in the fields and enjoying their families while Chill Penury held them back from gr... ... Brady, Frank. Structure and content in Grays Elegy Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. newborn York Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 7-17. Carper, Thomas. Grays Personal Elegy Thomas Gr ays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 39-50. Lonsdale, Roger. poesy of Thomas Gray Versions of the Self Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 19-38. McLean, Albert. William Cullen Bryant. New York Twayne Publishers, Inc, 1964. 65-81. Smith, Eric. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 51-67. Peckham, Harry Houston. Gotham Yankee. New York Russell and Russell, 1971. 31-35.