Question

In your own words, explain how the poet’s description of trees, beetles, flowers, pastures, and a sunset affects the tone and conveys the central theme of the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

Answer 1

The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is an elegy in name but not in form. The whole style and theme of the poem is like of that contemporary odes. It also embodies the meditation on death and as well as the remembrance of death. The trees, beetles, flower, pastures are talking about life. These dispel the word "grave" from mentioning it. Sunset, on the other hand, symbolizes the end
Explanation:
The most obvious and important theme of the poem is 'death'.
The poem starts with varied types of imaging that continue until the fourth textual matter wherever grey mentions the graves for the first time.

All the imaging describing the atmosphere and also the setting of the waning day, symbolize the transient nature of life and additional the stanzas emphasize foregone conclusion and duration of death.
So the poem's tone is of gloom and disappointment with the Epitaph of the speaker at the top, adding to the mundane feeling of the poem.

Answer 2

The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is an elegy in name but not in form. The whole style and theme of the poem is like of that contemporary odes. It also embodies the meditation on death and as well as the remembrance of death. The trees, beetles, flower, pastures are talking about life. These dispels the word "grave" from mentioning about it. Sunset on the other hand symbolizes the end.