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Thomas Gray’s poem ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,'' is written in the romantic style. He describes the beauty of the English countryside and its people. He portrays English subjects such as farmers, housewives, and cowherds, and the natural world. He writes of death and its effect on all beings.
Because he explores the certainty and finality of death, mentioning religion, with its ideal of the afterlife, would take away from the point of the poem. Instead, Gray wants to emphasize that death comes to all in the natural world, and only the names and deeds of people live on. For this reason, he uses the image of the dead lying in their graves ("each in his narrow cell for ever laid," "Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?") to show that death is not only unavoidable but also final. In the poem, the speaker states that the lives and "toil" of humble villagers who are dead and forgotten is equal to that of famous people such as John Milton and Thomas Cromwell. The poet mourns the lost potential of the village folk, who died with their talents hidden and unpraised due to a lack of education and poverty.
God is mentioned in the epitaph at the end of the poem. But Gray does not mention God in his poem because his themes of lost potential, and the inevitable but natural cycle of life and death, go against the religious ideal of eternal life after death. PLATO
Answer:Thomas Grey wrote about natural things and events. Even though religion is natural, he did not write about it. His poems were about normal people such as farmers, cowards, housewives, etc. He wrote about things people would understand best. His writings on death and how it effected people were normal as well. He wanted to write poems to describe someone's life in an understanding way.
Writing about supernatural beliefs would take away from the meanings of his poems, death. He wanted to write about how death was natural and unavoidable. Even though mentioning God or other supernatural beings was the usual meaning behind romantic poetry, he wanted it to be different and more realistic. He wanted to make it clear that death happens in the real world, the natural world. He used imagery of people dying and even people laying in their graves.
Although he wanted natural death to be the theme of his poem, he mentioned God at the end of it. The only reason Thomas Grey does not use God in the poem entirely is because that would take away from his theme. He wanted to make it clear that the death cycle was inevitable and not something you can just skip out on.
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