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An elegy is a poem that reflects upon death. It is a very good way for people to release stress. It makes others think. An elegy to some people, is very depressing to read. Most of thge time it tells the truth about a side of a persons life, that no one kno ....

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.... of death, thro’ Berkley’s roof that ring.”(Gray. 821) Gray has a way of writing lines in difficult ways, that you could have used six words to explain the sentence. In his last poem “The Progress of Poesy,” Gray has a different way of explaining his point of view. In this particular poem he pertains to life as a drink. He wants the reader to get a mental picture of a human , drinking life like a glass of tea. Grays point, is the a person has total control of what they do, and what a person does not do. If one makes a mistake, just shake it off and start over again. ....