Eulogies

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to explain the

sentence. In his last poem “The Progress of Poesy,” Gray has a different way of

explaining his point of view. In this particular poem he pertains to life as a drink. He

wants the reader to get a mental picture of a human , drinking life like a glass of tea.




Grays point, is the a person has total control of what they do, and what a person does

not do. If one makes a mistake, just shake it off and start over again.

Two other well known elegy authors, are Burton Raffel, and Charles W.

Kennedy. Raffel translated the poem “The Seafarer” and Kennedy “The Wanderer.”

Raffel used the sea to tell his tale. an example of how Raffel use the sea is “OF s

mashing surf when I sweated in the cold, Of am anxious watch, purched in the bow,

As it dashed under cliffs, My feet were cast, In Icy bands, Bound with frost.(Raffel. 17)

In Kennedy’s poem “The ...

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