This excerpt from thomas gray’s “an elegy written in a country churchyard” expresses the praise stage of an elegy. what does it praise?

oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;
how jocund did they drive their team afield!
how bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

let not ambition mock their useful toil,
their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
the short and simple annals of the poor.

The exaltation to death.

Explanation:

Gray's literary work is not voluminous but the good quality of his writings makes up for it. The Elegy is the most popular and perhaps the best of his works. It is linked to the stream of tomb poetry, inaugurated by Edward Young, an influence that is also found in Pindaric odes: The progress of poetry, The bard, the prophetic ode, and others.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)