UCLR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard, The Sick Rose, Kubla Khan
6 Apr 2016
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Theme: romance in death; remembering and recollection; alienation. Poems used: kubla khan, the sick rose, and elegy written in a country courtyard. Childish imagination in an adult; sad and melancholy quality. Opium = gives coleridge a sense of well being and safety. The power of dreams and the imagination. Some type of romance in this fantastical world. Opposites clashing together and then making a kind of harmony/duality. Most buried are poor people from the village with simple grave markers. Imagines the life that these people may have had. We are all going to die someday. Speaker thinks about his own inevitable death. Imagines someday in the future that someone might do just as he is doing, and may pass over his grave. Imagines what the villager might say or think about him. Thomas gray essentially writes his own epitaph at the end of the poem.
