Elegy written in a country Churchyard
In this paper, you have to answer the following questions
Please answer each question in separated paragraph correctly. Read from English literature sources and write what you understand. I mean no need to quote or cite any source because they are understanding questions
1. Tell me something that delighted you about Old English literature, Middle English literature, and English Renaissance?
2. In Thomas Gray’s poem, ‘Elegy written in a country Churchyard” How do the dead differ from other heroes?
3. What do you think was Milton’s view of freedom and personal responsibility as revealed in Areopagitica?
4. In ‘ The Sun Rising” Why does the narrator say that the center of the universe is the bedroom into the Sun Shines?
5. “Song” is a playful and cynical little poem is built on an “outrageous” progression of “even if you could do that …” Statement, in which accomplishing one impossibility still leaves a greater impossibility not accomplished. What, according to the narrator (and John Donne. The poet), is it impossible to find even a man searched his whole life?
6. What parallels to 21-century disasters do you find in Samuel Pepys’ diary about the Great London Fire?
7. In “The Flea” one of the Donne’s most famous (infamous?) metaphysical arguments, based on a tawdry little physical scene, how does the speaker develop his argument after the lucky arrival of the flea?
