FebRUary

[may_posa1]

Hello Group E

Comments

[tricia_stewart]

Great post Lesley-Anne, I think you hit upon the mood of the poem directly. Don't worry you made perfect sense, at least to me anyway. Keep up the wonderful work,

-Tricia

[ofcatslives]

After reading your post, I really wish I would have been able to attend lecture. I did read Gray's elegy, but I don't feel I got all I should have out of it. Thanks to you though, I now know something about the mood of the time and what was intended to be expressed in this poem.

Janice

[meag_o]

I really agree with both Lesley-Anne and Tricia, this peom isn't depressing, it's peaceful. It almost celebrates life in a way. I thought it was profoundly moving.

[listen_to_teeth]

I just read your post and it's funny how we all thought it was peaceful. For some reason though, when he's starting the poem and describing the background (you know - the tinklings and the owl, etc), and then moves on to that stanza about the people buried under the trees - I just get this really morbid image from a movie. I just imagine this camera spanning over the beautiful night horizon and then it focuses in on this burial ground and slowly takes us through the ground revealing several skeletons. Too morbid for you guys? haha I know Tricia's loving this! Well at least I hope she is because I don't want to become the freak of Group E! But that's the image I get! haha But anyway, in reply to Meagan, I agree with the poem being profoundly moving. I'm really glad you said that too, because after checking over my post, I thought I sounded a little over the top. But I guess I can't help it, I just found is so beautiful. Maybe we're a little melancholy ourselves...