• Answer these questions (1-7) about “The Vanity of Human Wishes.”
• What is the poem’s central theme?
• What is Johnson implying about the human condition, about pride, about ambition, about human relationships?
• Why does he give us portraits of the wealthy man, the statesman, the soldier, the scholar, the beauty, the virtuous man, and so on?
• What does he have to say about human greatness, about hope, about fear, about people’s relationship with God?
• What use does he make of the historical figures whom he invokes throughout the poem?
• What solutions does he offer, in the end, to the problems he has raised in the course of the poem?
• Is the end of the poem cheerful or gloomy?
• In “On Idleness,” what vice does Johnson state “appears in the greatest multiplicity of forms”?
• In “On Idleness,” why does Johnson state that idleness may be the worst of the vices?
• How does Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” fit the genre of an “elegy”? Be specific. (3 points)

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