Ode to Adversity by Thomas Gray

Ode to Adversity by Thomas Gray.
It presentyed by: Ahmad Sobhy Rakhia.
Under the Supervision of: Prof. Muhammad Abou-Arab.
Banha Unive-rsity. Faculty of Arts.
Third Grrade. Second Semester.
date: 28-3-2018

2. BanhaUniversity
Fac. of Arts
Dept. of English Language and
Literature.
Third Grade
Ode to Adversity
by Thomas Gray
Presented by:
Ahmad Sobhy
Rakhia
Under the Supervision of:

4. Thomas Gray is generally considered the second most
important poet of the eighteenth century (following
the dominant figure of Alexander Pope) and the
most disappointing.
It was generally assumed by friends and readers that
he was the most talented poet of his generation, but
the relatively small and even reluctantly published
body of his works has left generations of scholars
puzzling over the reasons for his limited production
and meditating on the general reclusiveness and
timidity that characterized his life.

7. The Poem:
This poem can be seen as a challenge
from God that will serve to strengthen
man’s character.
The first Verse describes the daughter
of Jove as a very strong woman, she
frightens those who are corrupt and
makes the proud feel pain, and she can
make tyrants suffer alone without
sympathy.

8. The SecondVerse, explains that her
father had intended her to be virtuous, he
employed a nurse to teach the daughter
the importance of sorrow and how it
effects life.
The ThirdVerse, identifies the qualities
associated with the foolishness. The
narrator states that these poor qualities
will disappear along with the some friend.
The FourthVerse, identifies the good
qualities of wisdom which are profound
thought, melancholy, silent maid, charity,
and justice.

9. The Fifth Verse, the narrator begs the
daughter not to judge severely, but softly.
The SixthVerse and the Final, implore that
the daughter take on kind demeanor and uses
philosophy to teach rather than cruel justice to
hurt.
The narrator suggests that he is appearing
before the daughter, and asks her to treat him
gently and use generosity to teach him to love
and to forgive. She also helps him to detect his
sins and have respect for others feelings.

10. Forms and devices:
It is a lyrical poem. The poet never repeats himself in
any two poems, making of every one an experiment.
Themes:
The most important theme her is
. In this ode,
he wants to do virtuously the suffering with the
others.
The general thesis of this poem is that God
provided Adversityto teach us to understand
the sorrows of the others.

11. NOTES:
Thomas Gray was Pre-Romantic poet
interested in details of nature, and that
was totally new in that era.
The second line of the poem is the main
point which means to cultivate human
life.
Grey started writing the odes after the
death of his friend and the loss of the
other.

12. The main concern of Gray’s works is
Human Morality.
Adversityis a symbol of wisdom.
Gray emphasizes on the most important
qualities of the man which is love and
friendship.

13. https://www.poetryfoundati
on.org/poets/thomas-gray