This essay should be of 1500 words. Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ poem is attached as a PDF to this assignment. ALWAYS ANSWER THE ESSAY QUESTION ! Assessment Criteria: • Analyse the text, and otherwise from the period that it covers, • demonstrate some familiarity with the text, • use those analyses and that familiarity in the construction of critical arguments about the text, • construct such arguments and to conduct such analyses with reference to relevant literary and historical contexts, • trace relevant thematic and formal relations among the particular text studied in the question, • demonstrate good command of an adequate and relevant critical language. UK Grammer & Spelling ONLY MHRA Referencing Style ONLY for FOOTNOTES & BIBLIOGRAPHY – PDF explaining MHRA Referencing is attached to this assignment.