Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray

Test Practice

Identify Main Ideas

With your partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. What does Gray elegize in this poem?
a. The death of the mighty forefathers of the hamlet
b. The loss of simple, uncelebrated people
c. The destruction of nature
d. The pleasures of rustic life


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