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An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

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Q1. Whom the poet Thomas Gray pays tribute in his poem “An Elegy written in a country churchyard?

Ans: Thomas Gray who composed the poem “An Elegy written in a country churchyard”.

He is standing in the churchyard of the village. He thinks about great men who are lying dead in the churchyard. He pays tribute to those who lived in the past but dead now.

Q2. What scene does the poet present in his poem” An Elegy written in a country churchyard?

Ans: The poets present a very sad and poetic scene in his poem. There is no disturbing of the people. Few interesting and charming sounds like beetles song, the tinkling of the bells and the owl can be heard.

Q3. What the poet reminds while standing in the churchyard?

Ans. The poet reminds the past years of the people who are lying still in their graves. He thinks their graves are mostly under elm and yew trees but once they were famous and the people liked them.

Q4. How the dead people enjoy the peaceful sleep?

Ans. Thomas Gray says that the dead people in the churchyard are enjoying their peaceful sleep because no one is there to disturb them. Neither the fragrant breeze blowing throws the leaves nor the twittering of swallow from her nest. Neither the sharp crowing of the croak nor the blowing of the horn can awake them from their sound sleep in their graves.

Q5: Who will not comfort and love these dead people?

Ans. The poet says that the blazing heart can give them no pleasure. Their lives can no longer provide them comfort and their children will no more welcome them because they are dead.

Q6: What the poet reminds the living people of the world?

Ans. The poet reminds the living people of the world that the end of everything is death. The people who think themselves the most powerful or proud and those who respected here due to their beauty and health must all one day lie. The people who spend a glorious life must die one day.

Q7: What the poet complains to the people of the world about those who are lying still.

Ans. The poet complains to the living people of the world that they have forgotten those great men who are no more among them. He advises the people to remember those people in their prayer because there was a time when they had devoted their lives to them.