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... Great memorials that these important celebrities buy do no more for the dead that a common grave marker. ... “He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven (‘twas all he wished) a friend,” is found in the controversial epitaph that sustains what the narrator, a lonely graveyard visitor, says earlier in the poem. ... The lowing of cattle, droning of a beetle in flight, twinkling of sheep-bells, and the owl’s hooting mourn the passing of day, which can be taken metaphorically as a person. ... First, the goals of the great share the same fate as the “rude forefathers,” which is the grave. ... He is a “rude Forefather” of whom “to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Approximate Word count = 597
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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