Free Essays on Poems Of Graveyard (shelley,gray Unamuno)

Alberto Là ³pez Correa Professor Cabezas Coca Literatura Romntica Victoriana Eduardiana 29 Dic 2001 POEMS OF GRAVEYARD Shelley ´s â€Å"A Summer Evening Churchyard†, Gray ´s â€Å"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard† and â€Å"En un cementerio de lugar castellano† by Unamuno Death, as the greatest human truth, is and an excellent topic in poetry, beholded sometimes as a fearful hour, sometimes as the definitive peace. There is a calidoscopic view of these three authors about death and the place where it dwells; the prerromanticism of Gray, the full romanticism of Shelley and the anguish of life of Unamuno. Shelley stresses the idea of peace and rest that Death provides. As a romantic he makes of Death a magical thing, one more step in the circle of life. Nature plays a very important role; Summer comes before Atumn as Twilight comes before death. Death is the last of the mysteries, the last of the dreams. The whole poem is deeply evocative â€Å"They breathe their spells towards the departing day Encompassing the earth, air, stars and sea .../Responding to the charm with its own mistery† (L. 7-10) Death receives several names; Twilight (5), Obscurest Glen (6) departing day (7) etc. Life is a dream or just an illusion for many authors like Calderà ³n or Plato (very important for romantics), but death is also for some like Quevedo; â€Å"No me queda ya que soà ±ar, y si en la visita de la muerte no despierto, no hay que aguardarme. Si te pareciere que ya es mucho sueà ±o, perdona algo a la modorra que padezco; y si no gurdame el sueà ±o, que serà © yo sietedurmiente de las postrimerà ­as† (Quevedo, â€Å"Sueà ±o de la muerte† p.182) We are all asleep, dreaming we have a life, and when we die we are awakening to a new life, this may be the idea reflected in the poem. That ´s why Shelley ´s depiction of it is â€Å"Tus solemnized and softened, death is mild /and terrorless as this serenest night† (l. 25). The next line (l. 2... Free Essays on Poems Of Graveyard (shelley,gray Unamuno) Free Essays on Poems Of Graveyard (shelley,gray Unamuno) Alberto Là ³pez Correa Professor Cabezas Coca Literatura Romntica Victoriana Eduardiana 29 Dic 2001 POEMS OF GRAVEYARD Shelley ´s â€Å"A Summer Evening Churchyard†, Gray ´s â€Å"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard† and â€Å"En un cementerio de lugar castellano† by Unamuno Death, as the greatest human truth, is and an excellent topic in poetry, beholded sometimes as a fearful hour, sometimes as the definitive peace. There is a calidoscopic view of these three authors about death and the place where it dwells; the prerromanticism of Gray, the full romanticism of Shelley and the anguish of life of Unamuno. Shelley stresses the idea of peace and rest that Death provides. As a romantic he makes of Death a magical thing, one more step in the circle of life. Nature plays a very important role; Summer comes before Atumn as Twilight comes before death. Death is the last of the mysteries, the last of the dreams. The whole poem is deeply evocative â€Å"They breathe their spells towards the departing day Encompassing the earth, air, stars and sea .../Responding to the charm with its own mistery† (L. 7-10) Death receives several names; Twilight (5), Obscurest Glen (6) departing day (7) etc. Life is a dream or just an illusion for many authors like Calderà ³n or Plato (very important for romantics), but death is also for some like Quevedo; â€Å"No me queda ya que soà ±ar, y si en la visita de la muerte no despierto, no hay que aguardarme. Si te pareciere que ya es mucho sueà ±o, perdona algo a la modorra que padezco; y si no gurdame el sueà ±o, que serà © yo sietedurmiente de las postrimerà ­as† (Quevedo, â€Å"Sueà ±o de la muerte† p.182) We are all asleep, dreaming we have a life, and when we die we are awakening to a new life, this may be the idea reflected in the poem. That ´s why Shelley ´s depiction of it is â€Å"Tus solemnized and softened, death is mild /and terrorless as this serenest night† (l. 25). The next line (l. 2...