Questions tagged [thomas-gray]
Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet, known for "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
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Pronouns in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
I have four questions regarding Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
What is the subject of "molest" in this stanza?
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r
The ...
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What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?
Here's the last stanza of Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College':
To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's ...
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