Explanation This is the purple passage of the meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray which is one of the five greatest elegies in English literature. Here with his literary gesture Thomas Gray informs us that the world is the vast source which comprises uncountable treasures in her womb. We can gain a very little bit of them. But the lion share is lying scattered in the ocean and in the …showed first 75 words of 403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 403 total…opportunity to develop and flourish. Actually, Thomas Gray has transferred his thought from a trivial setting and placed it where it fitly exemplifies the pathos of human life. This is an extra ordinary elegy written by Thomas Gray which is very much romantic, painful and disdainful and also provokes him of his nostalgia. Above all, with these four lines, Thomas Gray depicted metaphorically the negligence and injustice of the aristocrats over the lower class people. #