Country living

Gray’s Elegy is a quite low class poem. It focuses on nature, as many other poems have in the past but more on the quaint countryside. He focuses on the country folk and his life and take on his surroundings. The death of the common people, as well as his own is what he focuses on as well. He compares rural life with urban life and seems to support the hard working country folk and look down on those that don’t work. He lifted up the simple people living in the country over the rough, money seeking city dwellers. How he analyzes the lives of the different people and how they live allow him to take a deeper look at how he wants to live out his life and his face his eventual death.