Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Themes

Well, Shmoopers, you probably saw this one coming: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a poem that takes place in a cemetery, and it's about how people are remembered after they're dead. So...

Okay, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" isn't just about death. We promised some less-depressing themes, and this is one of them: the poem is about how we're remembered after we're gone. That...

If you're all depressed from reading about death and mortality in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," not to worry. There are plenty of natural images to counteract all of that doom and...

Sure, you can sum up Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" as a poem about death and mortality, but there's a lot more to it if you look under the surface. Beneath all that stuff about dea...

The speaker of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" sure is excited to be left alone in a dark churchyard after the sun goes down. What's up with that? This guy might just like his solitu...