1. Thanatos (Death) and Opsis (Sight). The poem is about the sight of death and having to eventually go through it.
2. Shroud: A cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Pall: a cloth, often a velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
Narrow House: the grave
Sepulcher: a tomb, grave, or burial place
The words influence the poem by talking about death, since the poem changes to the way of death it just makes it more understanding.
3. The shift in the poem around line 30 changes it from life to death. Death is a part of life that everyone has to go through it at some point.
4. The tone of the beginning of the poem is life and being stern about things, bitter, it switches around line 30, the tone of the end of the poem is about death and comforting because you are dying peacefully.
5. An elegy is a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. The elements that describe this is when the poem shifts from mournful to comfort.
6. The poem is a description of a forest with rivers and hills forming the landscape so that its not flat and boring. It could also paint a picture that is bright and cheerful on one side with sunshine and flowers; while being dark and gloomy on the other side with rain and unhappy things.
7. The poem is an example of a historical poem by the language being used and because it simplified the thinking of the people during that time. It is a romantic poem because it has a deeper meaning that you would have read between the lines, it is also opposite from what people think now. Everyone tries to stay alive saying that death is a bad thing but in this poem it is saying that death is a beautiful thing that you shouldn't be scared of. It is a Calvinist poem because it is in the wrath of God that you should not be scared of death, this poem is a description of everyone having the same fate.
