A Critical Appreciation of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Written by Thomas Gray
This “Elegy” consists of 32 stanzas. Each stanza consists of four iambic pentameter lines for which they are called heroic quatrains. In the first three quatrains the poet has created a suitable atmosphere required for mourning the death of near and dear ones. Gray selects evening for the time of mourning. This gives him the…