In the fourth stanza, the speaker of this poem sees "mouldering heaps" of turf around objects, and later laments the "heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
Onomatopoeic images appearing early in this poem include a beetle's "droning flight" and a "moping owl" under the moon. In the fourth stanza, the speaker of this poem sees "mouldering heaps" of turf around objects, and later laments the "heart once pregnant with celestial fire." The speaker of this poem claims that he is "mindful of the unhonored dead" and because of that, hopes that "some kindred spirit shall inquire." Commemorating the deaths of common people who lived their lives "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," for 10 points, name this meditation on death upon feeling the presence of the titular location written by Thomas Gray.
Onomatopoeic images appearing early in this poem include a beetle's "droning flight" and a "moping owl" under the moon.
“{Elegy} Written in a {Country Churchyard}”