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Poets combine the use of language and a specific structure to create imaginative and expressive work such as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. The structure used in some Poetry types are also used when considering the visual effect of a finished poem.
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www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/elegy-written-in-a-country-c...
www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard.htm
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Through the study and analysis of the poem "Elegy" by Robert Bridges, students can understand this particular type of lyric poetry more effectively in their future reading, and they will also demonstrate their understanding by composing an elegy.
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www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/elegy.html
www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/elegy.html
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As D. A. Powell writes in his essay on the elegy’s structures in Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns, the elegiac mode has three kinds of structures: one with a turn from grief to consolation; one with a turn from grief to the refusal ... Here is an elegy that turns from grief to the refusal of consolation:
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structureandsurprise.wordpress.com/ss-supplements/the-e...
structureandsurprise.wordpress.com/ss-supplements/the-elegys-structures/
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In Portfolio 12 we are considering a poetic form defined by subject matter, the elegy, which, as Kowit tells you, is a poem in a memory of the dead (Kowit 217) However, historically the elegy in English has had many more specific elements.
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www.clas.ufl.edu/users/pcraddoc/port12.htm
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The term elegy was usually used in classical times for love poetry written with a specific meter, and in the Renaissance it kept this sense with some variation. However, since the seventeenth century elegy has come to mean a formal poem of lament and consolation concerning a particular person's death,
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web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LTElegy.html
web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LTElegy.html
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I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. ... When you wake in the morning hush; I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft starlight at night. ... Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there; I did not die.
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www.ckls.org/~sthomas/poems/Elegy.html
www.ckls.org/~sthomas/poems/Elegy.html
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Because it talked about people of a much higher rank, Chaucer had to write the elegy in a way that would not upset the hierarchical conventions, which is why he created distance in the poem between the speaker/dreamer (that many would have assumed to be Chaucer himself) and the Duchess. It would also be the reason why...
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www.tiphane.org/guy/portfolio/duchess.htm
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The formalistic views on form, allow us to look at the essential structure of the poem. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray shows aspects of both Dialogical and Formalistic Approaches.
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personal.centenary.edu/~skbasham/essay2.html
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The Structure of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" ... lines 1-12: description of the scene ... lines 13-28: the speaker (a Gray persona) describes the graves of the "rude forefathers of the hamlet," imagines their former lives...
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titan.iwu.edu/~wchapman/britpoet/elegystructure.html
titan.iwu.edu/~wchapman/britpoet/elegystructure.html
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