Both Grays `Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard` and Goldsmiths `The Deserted Village` are about loss. Compare and contrast the poets attitude toward loss in each poem.

Gray and Goldsmith 's Attitudes towards Loss

Death as man 's fate can never be controlled by anyone or by anything This is what one can infer from the poems of Thomas Gray and Oliver Goldsmith . These poems deal about death or loss of life and all other losses humans experience in life . Consequently , this is a comparative analysis of the attitudes of Gray and Goldsmith towards death or loss in their poems . This includes a discussion of the similarities and differences of the poet 's attitude which can be deduced from

the speaker 's involvement or attachment , the speaker 's feelings towards the subject and the tone of the poems Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ' by Thomas Gray and The Deserted Village ' by Oliver Goldsmith . Obviously , both poets have similar attitudes and feelings about the subject . However , Gray communicates stronger attitudes about loss or death in his poem than what Goldsmith articulates about the subject in his poem

To begin with , Gray 's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ' is a poem composed of 128 lines grouped into stanzas and it focuses on the dead people buried in a country churchyard . While , Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village ' is a poem consisting of 430 lines grouped into irregular number of lines per thought and it talks of the wretchedness of a village named Auburn

These poems have the following similarities . Initially , both poets are emotionally to the on hand . Gray feels the loss as he contemplates...