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The ploughman 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 drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r
However, a more contemplative mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751 [13]): 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. (1–4)
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
The poet then notes the "'heavy change' suffered by nature now that Lycidas is gone—a ‘pathetic fallacy’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament Lycidas's death." [ 5 ] In the next section of the poem, "The shepherd-poet reflects… that thoughts of how Lycidas might have been saved are futile… turning from lamenting ...
"Hillbilly Elegy" centered around Vance's chaotic childhood in Ohio, plagued by familial trauma, domestic violence, generational patterns of abuse and addiction. Vance recalled happier memories of ...
The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry , as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss.
Both the 2016 novel "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by JD Vance and its 2020 film adaptation by Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind," "American Graffiti," "The DaVinci Code ...
Filmmaker Ron Howard is sharing his thoughts about J.D. Vance vice presidential candidacy, four years after he adapted Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy,into a Netflix film of the same name.. In an ...