Buenas Tareas

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
VOCABULARIO
Curfew: Toque de queda
Tolls: Los peajes
Knell: Toque de difuntos/Doble
Lea: Pasto/Prado
Ploughman: Arador
Homeward: De regreso a casaWeary: Cansado
Fades: Se desvanece
The glimmering landscape: El paisaje resplandeciente
Stillness: quietud/tranquilidad
Holds: Se mantiene
Beetle: Escarabajo
Drowsy: Adormedido
Tinklings: TintineosLull: Calma
Folds: Pliegues
Ivy: Hiedra
The moping owl: El búho abatido
Molest her ancient solitary reign: Abusar de su reinador solitario antiguo
Beneath: Debajo
Shade: Sombra
Rugged elms:Olmos resistentes

SUMMARY
Lines 1-4:
In the first stanza, the speaker observes the signs of a country day drawing to a close: a curfew bell ringing, a herd of cattle moving across the pasture, anda farm laborer returning home.
Lines 5-8:
The second stanza sustains the somber tone of the first: the speaker is not mournful, but pensive, as he describes the peaceful landscape that surroundshim. Even the air is characterized as having a "solemn stillness."
Lines 9-12:
The sound of an owl intrudes upon the evening quiet.
Lines 13-16:
It is in the fourth stanza we are presented with twopotentially conflicting images of death. Line 14 describes the heaps of earth surrounding the graves; in order to dig a grave.

Lines 17-20:
The "Forefathers" are sleeping, however, the speakerreminds us that they will never again rise from their "beds" to hear the pleasurable sounds of country life that the living do.
Lines 21-24:
The speaker then moves on to consider some of the otherpleasures the dead will no longer enjoy: the happiness of home, wife, and children.
Lines 25-28:
The dead will also no longer be able to enjoy the pleasures of work, of plowing the fields each day.Lines 29-32:
The next four stanzas caution those who are wealthy and powerful not to look down on the poor.
Lines 33-36:
The speaker reminds the reader that regardless of social position, beauty, or...