Elegy Written in a Cemetery: an analysis of the messages presented in this titleThomas Gray wrote his literary work entitled "Elegy Written in a Cemetery" in 1750. The narrator in This story sits next to a church cemetery and just observes. It was close to the age of science and reasoning, which in other words means people were questioning reason and logic. Therefore, Gray came up with many messages to convey in this work. In "Elegy Written in a Churchyard" written by Thomas Gray, the narrator observes that death is something that will affect everyone no matter what, that those who belong to the lower class have fewer opportunities than others, and that the virtue and purity of those who work and live as farmers. Those who worked on farms and lived in villages were far from the temptations and evils that reigned in the city and court. The narrator underlines this in these lines: “Far from the ignoble conflicts of the delirious crowd, their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered valley of life they kept the silent tone of their path. Due to their distance from the city and the upper class, villagers and farmers led a more virtuous lifestyle and had higher morals than those who lived in cities. Obviously, Gray also conveys the message that those who were buried in the cemetery lived a very virtuous lifestyle compared to those who lived in the cemetery. This book makes some very good points about the differences between those in the upper classes and those in the lower classes. When this was written, most poets were transitioning into the age of science and reason, so they had more thoughts and ideas about logic and reason; the way things work. Gray shows this through the messages he conveys in his “Elegy Written in a Cemetery” which are as follows: death affects everyone despite their way of life, that those who belong to the lower class have fewer opportunities than others, and the virtue and purity of those who work and live as