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Thomas Gray;Sentimentalism 感伤主义; The poem was first published in 1751. Gray may, however, have begun writing the poem in 1742, shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West. An elegy is a poem which laments the dead. Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is noteworthy in that it mourns the death not of great or famous people, but of common men. The poem invokes the classical idea of memento mori, a Latin phrase which states plainly to all mankind, Remember that you must die. In this poem, the graveyard acts as a memento mori, reminding the narrator to not place too much va