Wednesday, April 9, 2014

1) - Thantos = Death, Opsis = Seeing
- The poem relates to death a lot with how it describes and mentions tombs and graves and eternal resting places.


2) Shroud- Wrap or dress worn for burial
Pall- A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb
Narrow House- Another word for the grave
Sepulcher- A place for burial
- This poem is mostly talking about death, so these words really relate to the poem.


3) The poem is about death, because of the words used it make you think of death. There is also a shift between life to death in the poem lines.

4) The tone in the beginning of the poem is forbidding and changes as it gets to line 30.

5) An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The poem shifts from grief to comfort.

6) The Painting would probably have dark clouds over a grave yard with a shift going through it, with tall crinkly grass.

7) It represents part of the view of the time period. The theme talks about nature a lot and Romanticism dealt with a lot nature and talking about its beneficial affect. It is saying, from a Calvinist point of view, that after death, you return to nature. It's Describing death and life and saying like death is alright.