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1
Q

Elegy

A

Funeral poem

2
Q

Theme

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Life and death
Morality
Whether there is life after death

3
Q

Ideas

A

Whether life should be happier for most people

Life on earth should be better for all

4
Q

Title

A

Tells us what has or will happen

5
Q

“Shadows”

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Connotation is menacing

Suggesting something bad will happen in the pithead

6
Q

“pithead”

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Entrance to a coal mine

7
Q

“oath-edged”

A

Swearing

8
Q

Stanza 1 and 2

A

Meet the miners on their way to work

9
Q

Stanza 3

A

Nature is perfect and beautiful

10
Q

“lark’s eggs”

A

Symbols of life and death, especially life, in the poem

11
Q

Lark

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Songbird

12
Q

“Fathers brothers nicknames laughter”

A

Tight-knit community

No commas gives us a sense of close they are

13
Q

“Through the tall gates standing open.”

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Represent the gates of decent into hell
Air of menace
Gates to the end of their lives
Hell is referred to a ‘the pit’

14
Q

“tremor”

A

Something bad has happened

15
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“cows/Stopped chewing for a second”

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Startled
Impact on nature
As terrible as death is, it is merely a moment in life

16
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“sun/Scarfed as in a heat-hazed dimmed”

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Dust blown out of the mine covers the sun

17
Q

Stanza 4

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Subtle and quick
Doesn’t give us details
Alludes to the explosion

18
Q

“comfort”

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Biblical image

19
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“We shall see them face to face”

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One day we will be reunited in the afterlife

20
Q

“Larger than life”

A

Powerful and healthy

21
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“Gold as on coin”

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Suggests how much better heaven is for them

22
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“One showing the eggs unbroken.”

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Shows them whole again

Poignant (bitter-sweet)

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