[General] Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted.....

[Rollercoaster1]

Hello, I have a stanza from a poem "An elegy written in a country churchyard" I would appreciate if you can describe the meaning of the lines below.

Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault
If Memory over their tomb no trophies raise,
Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

 

[jutfrank]

Is this part of your homework?

Which part are you having trouble with? Have you read the rest of the poem?

 

[emsr2d2]

Did you notice a difference in capitalisation between how you wrote the title and how it's written in whatever book you're reading it in?

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Did you notice a difference in capitalisation between how you wrote the title and how it's written in whatever book you're reading it in?

Yes, let me correct it. It should be 'Memory' instead of 'memory'.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Is this part of your homework?

Which part are you having trouble with? Have you read the rest of the poem?

Is this part of your homework?

Which part are you having trouble with? Have you read the rest of the poem?

I don't know why whenever I put up a question here seems to be my homework. If it's my homework, I'll let you know in the title or thread. I have read the whole poem. I can't savvy the last two lines in the stanza I gave. I doubt if the last two lines have anything related to the words 'these the fault' and the second line referring to the poor deceased buried in the churchyard.

In my opinion the summary of the stanza is 'Rich and noble people shouldn't blame the buried-poor farmers' graves are not as distinguished in forms as the rich people's graves are. When religious music is sung in the church the aisles and the beautifully carved roof of the church echoes and it's like that the farmers or poor (who are dead and buried) are being praised'.

 

[emsr2d2]

Did you notice a difference in capitalisation between how you wrote the title and how it's written in whatever book you're reading it in?

Yes, let me correct it. It should be 'Memory' instead of 'memory'.

There's no need to capitalise "memory". I asked you about capitalisation of the poem's title.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

There's no need to capitalise "memory". I asked you about capitalisation of the poem's title.

The word 'Memory' is capitalized in the original poem. The first letter of my title is capitalized what else should be?

 

[emsr2d2]

You should capitalise every main word, exactly the same as you would do in a book title or a film title. The poem is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". That should be how it's written in your book and it's how it's written on every website that came up when I Googled the title.

 

[Rover_KE]

I don't know why whenever I put up a question here seems to be my homework.

That's badly expressed, but we've every right to ask you if it's homework, and I think it's only the second time we've done this. The way you posted the original thread made it appear that you were simply asking for an answer to a homework assignment.

In my opinion the summary of the stanza is ...

Well done! Now you're showing us that you've made your own effort to understand the stanza and if you'd included that in post #1 you'd have saved us and yourself a lot of time.

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[Rollercoaster1]

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Again, that's not my assignment or homework.

 

[jutfrank]

Again, that's not my assignment or homework.

Well, it occurred to me that it might have been, so I thought it best to ask.

I realise now that you've quite recently changed your username, which is probably why I didn't at first recognise you. I won't ask this again. I apologise if I annoyed you.