Question

What is the setting of the poem? (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)

• A. A bustling city park at midday
• B. A grand cathedral during a festival
• C. An ancient castle during a storm
• D. A rural churchyard in the evening

Answer 1

Answer:

D. A rural churchyard in the evening

• The setting of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is essential to its reflective and somber tone.

• The quiet, evening atmosphere in a countryside graveyard creates the perfect backdrop for the speaker's meditations on death, anonymity, and the lives of ordinary people.