...the alternating rhymes. The poem begins, most memorably: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. This verse-pattern is far better suited to the topic of Gray's 'Elegy' — untimely death and...

...SENECA, (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman. Epistulae ad Lucilium, epistle 70, set. 1 1 . The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. THOMAS GRAY, (1716-1771) British poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," st. 1-2 (1751)....

...Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"2: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me. To digress for a moment: Gray's stanza offers a fine illustration...

...GRAYThomas 1716-1771 4290 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, folds. 4291 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Let not ambitlon mock their useful toil, Their homely...

...and deliberate movement. Examples: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 6. Short Vowels: Short vowels suggest urgency and less pleasant moods....

...prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 'The Bard' ( i 757) I. 7 i 6 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning (light, And...

...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,...

...observer among the sights and sounds of a rural church-yard: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; The poet of the Elegy is remarkably alive to almost everything around him. The specific details...

...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds . . ,22 Zhukovskii s well-known reworking of Gray's elegy as "The Country Churchyard" ("Sel'skoe...

...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And...