Pope and Gray

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The paper considers the theme of change as is present within the poetical works of Thomas Gray and Alexander Pope. The paper describes how Pope conveys a nationalistic message of the ability of man to reconstruct history and mythology in the landscape of Windsor Forest. The paper explains, however, that Gray presents the limitations of this change and the static nature of history that does not define the suffering of the masses to make historical and political change possible.

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"This literary study will analyze the ever-changing view of industrialization that occurred in England, forging a new environmental view of the landscape of England in the poetry of Thomas Gray and Alexander Pope. Through Pope's poem "Windsor-Forest" one can analyze the powerful theme of change in Windsor Forest, as mankind uses the powerful new tools of technology and science to change the natural beauty of this region. In contrast to this view, Gray in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" portrays the landscape of death, which conveys an opposing sense of progress in the static perspective of life."

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