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1、CommentaryonElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyardAlthoughneo-classicismplayedaleadingroleintheliterarysceneinthe18thCentury,thereweremanypoetswhosepoetrymoreorlessdeviatedfromtherulesthatsetdownbyneo-classicistpoets.Thesepoetsshowedgreatdesireforsomethingmorenaturalinthoughtandlanguage.Intheirpoetry,emo
2、tionsandsentimentshadbeenmoreexpressed.Amongthesepoets,oneoftherepresentativeswasThomasGray.Graywasanimportantpoetofneo-classicismandhespentmostofhislifeinCambridgeonstudyandwork.Hewassoselfcriticalandfearfuloffailurethatheonlypublished13poemsduringhislifetime.HismasterpiecewasTheElegyWritteninaCou
3、ntryChurchyard,whichcosthimeightyearstofinishandhasbeenrankedamongthebestofthe18thcenturyEnglishpoetry.Gray’sElegy,amodelofsentimentalistpoetry,isregardedasa“bestknownpoemintheEnglishlanguage”,apoemfullofthegentlemelancholywhichmarksallearlyRomanticpoetry.Withaclassicalprecisionandpolish,thepoemsho
4、wsakeeninterestintheEnglishcountrysideandasincerefeelingofthelifeofcommonpeople.Inthispoem,thepoetwanderedinthechurchyardandthoughtalotwhenhesawtheGravestonesoftheordinarypeople.Thesepeopleareunknowntopublicandtheyworkedforalltheirlivesbuttheywereburiedinsosimpleandcrudechurchyardaftertheirdeath.Th
5、eywereambitiousaswellassomegreatpeoplewhentheywereAlive.Thepoetexpressedhisgreatsympathytotheordinarypeopleandcriticizetheextravagantanddissipatedbigshots.Besides,heshowedthefactthatdeathwasinevitableandthateven“thepathsofgloryledbuttothegrave”.Thepoemcontains32quatrainsofiambicpentameter,witharhym
6、eschemeofababforeachstanza.Eachlinehasfivepairsofsyllablesforatotaloftensyllables.Ineachpair,thefirstsyllableisunstressedandthesecondisstressed.Wecanfinditinthefirsttwolinesofthepoem:“Thecurfewtollstheknellofpartingday,Thelowingherdwindsslowlyo'erthelea”.Besides,ineachstanza,thefirstlinerhymeswitht
7、hethirdandthesecondlinerhymeswiththefourth(abab),whichwasacharacteristicofthiskindofpoem.Forexample,“Thecurfewtollstheknellofpartingday, Thelowingherdwindslowlyo'erthelea,Theplowmanhomewardplodshiswearyway,
