Answers  April 7,2014 

1) - Thantos = Death, Opsis = Seeing
- The poem relates to death a lot with how it describes and mentions tombs and graves and eternal resting places.

2) Shroud- Wrap or dress worn for burial
Pall- A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb
Narrow House- Another word for the grave
Sepulcher- A place for burial
- This poem is mostly talking about death, so these words really relate to the poem.

3) This is a poem about death. It talks about how death is, kind of like "the experience" . This poem is a little creepy. It talks about being in a coffin and going to the grave to eternally rest.

4) At first the poem talks about gayness and happiness, and then at line 10, the poem takes a turn to the opposite. It turns morbid and gloomy.

5) An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The poem shifts from grief to comfort.

6) The painting would probably have the sun out, but there would be a funeral occurring. There would be people crying and a coffin in a grave with everyone standing around it.

7) It represents part of the view of the time period. The theme talks about nature a lot and Romanticism dealt with a lot nature and talking about its beneficial affect. It is saying, from a Calvinist point of view, that after death, you return to nature.