Poems_Of_Graveyard_(shelley,gray_Unamuno)

Poems Of Graveyard (shelley,gray Unamuno) Alberto López Correa Professor Cabezas Coca Literatura Romántica Victoriana Eduardiana 29 Dic 2001 POEMS OF GRAVEYARD Shelley´s “A Summer Evening Churchyard”, Gray´s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and “En un cementerio de lugar castellano” by Unamuno Death, as the greatest human truth, is and an excellent topic in poetry, beholded sometimes as a fearful hour, sometimes as the definitive peace. There is a calidoscopic view of these three authors about death and the place where it dwells; the prerromanticism of Gray, the full romanticism of Shelley and the anguish of life of Unamuno. Shelley stresses the idea of peace and rest that Death provides. As a romantic he makes of Death a magical thing, one more step in the circle of life. Nature plays a very important role; Summer comes before Atumn as Twilight comes before death. Death is the last of the mysteries, the last of the dreams. The whole poem is deeply evocative “They breathe their spells towards the departing day Encompassing the earth, air, stars and sea .../Responding to the charm with its own mistery” (L. 7-10) Death receives several names; Twilight (5), Obscurest Glen (6) departing day (7) etc. Life is a dream or just an illusion for many authors like Calderón or Plato (very death, de, life, la, one, gray, el, about, que, unamuno, poem, shelley, en, sueño, los, graveyard, very, unamuno¸s, nature, natural, important, idea, english, die, vision, three, spanish, shelley¸s, religious, poesías, poems, para, mistery, maybe, little