Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
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In the Epitaph, Thomas Gray shows his discontent toward the way
that life and death are categorized on this planet. He speaks of earth as
a place which holds people for the time being that they are going through
this grand cycle of what is called life.
When somebody only "rests his head upon the ....
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.... speaks out against the way this person was treated
in society which is symbolic of how people are being treated as a whole and
the hollowness and shallowness of people in the world. Now the person is
dead, there is no other help that you could give him. "Large was his
bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul
was a true one, he was still a marked man, and now he is only marked with a
stone that protrudes from the ground known as The Epitaph.
God is a part of ....
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