After the narrator wonders if "lonely contemplation" will lead "some kindred spirit" to inquire about him, he is dismissed as "crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love" by a "hoary-headed swain.
This work unfavorably contrasts the "boast of heraldry" and "storied urn" with the title locale. After the narrator wonders if "lonely contemplation" will lead "some kindred spirit" to inquire about him, he is dismissed as "crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love" by a "hoary-headed swain." Warning ambition not to mock the "useful toil" of the "rude forefathers of the hamlet," this poem describes the location of the title as "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." Ending with a three-stanza epitaph for "a youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown," FTP, name this poem beginning with the line "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day," an elegy to the inhabitants of a rural cemetery by Thomas Gray.
This work unfavorably contrasts the "boast of heraldry" and "storied urn" with the title locale.
“{Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard}”