#98- A Thanksgiving Touchstone: Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want
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This week, Scott and Karl talk about two, while unsuspecting, companion pieces: Thomas Gray\\u2019s poem \\u201cElegy Written in a Country Churchyard\\u201d and Norman Rockwell\'s iconic painting Freedom from Want.\\xa0
Scott says, "They are both about hearth and normal forgotten people."
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard\\u201d is a 1751 poem about the buried inhabitants of a country churchyard and a meditation on the inevitability of death. This is considered the best example of elegiac poetry in English literature of the eighteenth century.
Freedom from Want, also known as\\xa0The Thanksgiving Picture\\xa0or\\xa0I\'ll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the\\xa0Four Freedoms\\xa0series\\xa0of four\\xa0oil paintings\\xa0by American artist\\xa0Norman Rockwell.\\xa0
Tune in to hear more about the connection between these two pieces, and the celebration of life found in both.\\xa0
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