Can someone help me figure out what these 3 stanza’s mean?
justME <33 asked the question:
Stanza 1
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learned to stray
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Stanza 2
Yet even these bones from insult to protect
Some frail memorial still erected nigh
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked,implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Stanza 3
Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse
The place of fame and elegy supply:
And many a holy text around she strews
That teach the rustic moralist to die
I really don’t understand what these stanzas mean so can someone just give me the main idea in each stanza, thanks 10 pts to best answer!
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Stanza 1- Funeral services where many people are in mourning and in deep pain but nothing is said but the sadness is felt. The mourners feel mortality.
Stanza 2-The bones/deceased are buried with simple graves that make people who see them sigh.( Insult to protect sounds as if the dead are many soldiers.)
Stanza 3- The numerous graves don’t indivdually identify each person by name or age, only where they died(probably which famous battle) and a solemn poem on the site with lots of religious scriptures that teach of the morals of death