Pastoral elegyl

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1. Thomas gray -Thomas Gray was born on December 26, 1716 -born in: CORNHILL, LONDON - Parents: -Philip - Dorothy Career as a writer: • Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742. Death: Thomas Gray Died July 30, 1771, Cambridge

2.  The word pastoral comes from 'pastor' the Latin for Shepherd  OED 'Pastoral': 'A poem, play, or the like, in which the life of shepherds is portrayed, often in an artificial and conventional manner; also extended to works dealing with simple rural and openair life.' The Pastral elegy is a poem about both dead and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing the poet’s grief at a loss. Pastoral poetry deals with the life of shepherde who live in the imaginary Golden Age. Hence,pastoral poetry depicts the life of idealized shepherds in picturesque. Pastoral

3. An elegy is a poem or song which mourn the death of a person. It also include the poet’s reflections on certain aspect of life. The mood of an elegy is this serious and pensive . An elegy is a meditative lyric poem that has a very mournful and melancholy tone. It is usually written to mourn the death of a close friend or loved one, but also occasionally mourns humanity as a whole. Although this form of poetry reflects on the notion of death, it is not to be confused with a “eulogy,” which is a speech that gives tribute to a person, usually after the person has die [ d 3 . ] Elegy

4.  A poem of mourning in which the mourner and the person who is being mourned are represented as shepherds.  e.g. Milton, Lycidas (1637); Shelley, Adonais (1821); Arnold, Thyrsis (1865).  See handout for extracts from Lycidas Pastoral elegy has its origin in ancient Greece  The poet and the dead person are depicted as shepherds tending their flock  All nature joins in mourning the shepherd's death  The mourner accuses the dead shepherd's guardians (often nymphs) of negligence The pastoral Elegy

5. The pastoral elegy in conteamporary poetry Pastoral elegy poetry flourished in Europe between the Renaissance and the 19th century. However, modern poets, such as J.V. Cunningham and Alan Dugan, have re-imaged the elegy in both subject and form, and pastoral elegies have recently shown up in more satirical forms. However, other modern poets, such as William Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden, have written poems that maintain the traditional form and features of the pastoral elegy. Andrew Hudgins has an interesting elegy in which he mourns the lonely gap that exists between him and his still-living fathe . [ r 10] The poem is considered an elegy in the original sense of the Greek word elegeia , because it laments the fact that the father and son diverge in life, so they will most likely diverge in death as well. Though in its prime, the pastoral elegy had wide appeal, it is now sometimes considered dead.