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1、ThomasGrayThomasGraywasborninLondonintoabroker’sfamily.Hegotverygoodschooleducation,firstatEtonandthenatCambridge.HeleftCambridgewithouttakingadegree.ThomasGraywasoneofthemostimportantpoetsoftheeighteenthcentury.Thisscholarandpoetwasthemostfamousforhispoem"ElegyWritteni
2、naCountryChurchyard."ThomasGraywasbornonDecember26,1716inCornhillsectionofLondon,England.Hewastheonlychildinhisfamily.In1764hehadanoperationfromwhichheneverrecovered.Attheageoffifty-five,Graysufferedaviolentattackofgout痛风inthestomachandfinallydiedinhisroomonJuly30,1771i
3、nCambridge,London.HewasburiedbesidehisbelovedmotheratStokePogeschurchyard,thesceneofthe"Elegy".StokePogeschurchyard斯托克波吉斯(英国英格兰白金汉郡南部村庄，据信为格雷的《墓园挽歌》的背景地)HetouredaroundEuropewithHoraceWalpole,authoroftheworldfamousGothicnovelTheCastleofOtranto《奥特兰托的古堡》.In1768hewasmadePro
4、fessorofHistoryandModernLanguagesatCambridge.Inhislifetime,hewasknownasoneofthemostlearnedpersonsandaverysuccessfulpoet.Hewasnotsociable.HedeclinedthePoetLaureateshipin1657andledapeacefullifeasascholar.名作<<墓园挽歌>>的作者在所有早期的浪漫主义诗人中,学识最为渊博,性格也最为通达.年青时,他体质非常孱弱,是他们家十二个孩子中惟一幸存
5、的一位.他的童年很不幸,父亲很粗暴,并且后来他离开他深爱的母亲,不幸的童年使他的一生在忧郁中度过,在他的所有诗作中都可看到这种伤感风格.<<墓园挽歌>>弥漫着淡淡的忧伤,它是早期浪漫主义诗歌的标志,是那个时代最完美的诗,它属于那个时代.读弥尔顿的<<深思的人>>和格雷的<<挽歌>>就等于看到了占据英国诗人思想一个多世纪的”忧伤文学”的开端和完美阶段.CommentsonGrayGray’sliteraryoutputwassmall.Hewroteslowlyandcarefully.Hispoemsarecharacterizedb
6、yanexquisitesenseofform.HismasterpieceElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyardonceandforallestablishedhisfameastheleaderofsentimentalistpoetryandthespokesmanoftheGraveyardSchool.Whatisanelegy?Alyricpoemlamentingthedeathofanindividual.Itisusuallyformalinlanguageandstructure,ands
7、olemnorevenmelancholyintone.Whatisthepoem’sstanzaform?Quatrain四行诗Whatistherhymeschemeoftheelegy?abab(thefirstlinerhymeswiththethirdline,andthesecondlinerhymeswiththefourthline)Whatisthemeteroftheelegy?Iambicpentameter.(eachlinehastensyllables,anunstressedsyllableisfollo
8、wedbyastressedsyllable;itisiambic.Eachlinehasfivefeet.)Whatistherhythmlikeintheelegy?Therhythmoftheelegyisvery
