Quiz Read the excerpt.

9. What characteristics mark this passage as Pre-Romantic?

From "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by

Thomas Gray

A major scientific discoveries and values associated with

daylight

On some fond breast the parting soul relies,

Some pious drops the closing eye requires;

Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,

Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.

OB reasonable reaction to circumstances, and attention to

clarity and logic

C formal structure and language, an attention to nature,

and nameless feeling

OD informal structure and language, and an attention to

man's power over nature

Formal structure and language, an attention to nature.

Explanation:

Pre-Romanticism Period is also known as the Early romantic age or the Age of Transition. The era marked the beginning of the Romantic Period.

The pre-Romantic period began in the late eighteenth century. The marks of the Pre-romantic period were imagination, sensibility, creativity, and celebration of nature. The literature held the formal structure but mixed it with creativity and imagination.

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is an elegy written by Thomas Gray. Thomas Gray was one of the proponents of the pre-romantic period. The features that can be marked in the given passage is its formal structure and language, and the poem has celebrated nature in his elegy. Thus these features make this elegy a Pre-Romantic.