The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is an elegy in name but not in form. The whole style and theme of the poem is like of that contemporary odes. It also embodies the meditation on death and as well as the remembrance of death. The trees, beetles, flower, pastures are talking about life. These dispel the word "grave" from mentioning it. Sunset, on the other hand, symbolizes the end
Explanation:
The most obvious and important theme of the poem is 'death'.
The poem starts with varied types of imaging that continue until the fourth textual matter wherever grey mentions the graves for the first time.

All the imaging describing the atmosphere and also the setting of the waning day, symbolize the transient nature of life and additional the stanzas emphasize foregone conclusion and duration of death.
So the poem's tone is of gloom and disappointment with the Epitaph of the speaker at the top, adding to the mundane feeling of the poem.

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A rectangle has a side length of two and seven eighths feet and a side width of 5 feet. What is the area of the rectangle?

OlgaM077 [116]

The area of the rectangle is given as:" fourteen and two eighths ft2" (Option D)

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What is the formula for the area of a rectangle?</h3>

The Area of a Rectangle is given as:

L X B ( or W)

Where L = Length

W = Width.

Thus,

A = 2.875 X 5

= 14.375