who are /were among the famous graduates of Eton mentioned in gray 's elegy?
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“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem by Thomas Gray.
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- The speaker considers the deaths of poor and rich men same upon seeing grave sites in the shade of a yew tree.
- He does not mention the name of some graduate but reflects on the simplicity of the poor people and how they used to live
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The famous graduates of Eton were George Orwell, Karl Marx, Aldous Huxle among a few.
- The question has been asked from the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray.
- The poem weeps for the dead and also glorifies ordinary men by equating them to men who once possessed power and heraldry.
- The poem mourns the death of ordinary men, not of great or popular people. At sunset, Thomas Gray sees the churchyard of the country. This compels him to focus towards the essence of mortality in people .
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