Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. which elements in this stanza anticipate romantic literature? the parallel structure of the two couplets the reference to common folk the heightened emotion and nature images the formal rhyme scheme

The elements in this stanza that anticipate Romantic literature are the heightened emotion and nature images

Explanation:

“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” by Thomas Gray was written during a time of change when poetry was going from the Augustan Age to the Romantic period, even when it has components of the movement that was alive at the moment it also shows elements of the emerging one, such as emotionalism and individualism.

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