Thomas Hardy is an intriguing and enigmatic poet whose poetic themes deviate from war‚ nature and heroism to love‚ the transience of life and the death of the soul. Though penned some eighty years ago‚ the poetry of Thomas Hardy remains remarkably accessible and identifiable to a modern reader. While some critic’s claim that his poetic writing is archaise. His language elegant but awkward and his work difficult to comprehend‚ I enjoyed the poetry of Hardy for its diversity of themes‚ its earthly
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questioning by Thomas hardy and “creed by Steve turner”. The clarification for the structure where Hardy has repeated A‚b‚b‚a throughout
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tragedy‚ Hardy uses tragic circumstances to enhance the Wessex countryside and its inhabitants. By doing so he not only develops his story‚ but attains a certain grandeur for his novel. His first attempts at tragedy were The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge‚ but Tess of the d’Urbervilles is the culmination of his efforts. In this work‚ Hardy projects ancient drama into modern novel form. To accomplish this‚ he models his book after Aristotle’s formula for tragedy‚ although he focuses
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years 2007- 2009 and 2010-2012.] CONTENTS Introduction: how to use these Notes The stories: The Son’s Veto Her First Ball The Fly in the Ointment The Destructors A Horse and Two Goats The Rain Horse My Greatest Ambition Sandpiper At Hiruharama Thomas Hardy Katherine Mansfield V.S. Pritchett Graham Greene R.K. Narayan Ted Hughes Morris Lurie Ahdaf Soueif Penelope Fitzgerald 1 Introduction These notes are intended to give some background information on each author and/or story as an aid to further
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Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy (1867) Neutral Tones BY THOMAS HARDY We stood by a pond that winter day‚ And the sun was white‚ as though chidden of God‚ And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash‚ and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have
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though many of these authors are outstanding‚ there is one that surpasses the rest: Thomas Hardy. Today Hardy is famous for his novels Return of the Native and Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Hardy wrote many novels and volumes of poetry over his 50-year literary career. Hardy life has a huge
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work of literature or other art form by a critic. Hardy is known for integrating personal events from his life‚ into his poems that allow the reader to develop a fully rounded view of what he was trying to convey in his work. Love and its effects are one of his most famous themes that are the basis of many of his poems. Hardy tends to use references to many of his loves in his life in his poems especially his first wife Emma. The context from which he writes helps immensely when deducing the meaning
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Sue. He questions his reasons for being with her and then comes to his conclusion through rationalization in sentences three and five. Hardy’s word choice shows Jude as an intellectual and a man questioning his relationship with Sue. The figurative language and imagery of the excerpt show what Jude thinks of the leader-writer Sue once knew. Hardy’s use of syntax‚ diction‚ and imagery depict Jude’s thought process after speaking to Sue and what he should do to fix their relationship. Hardy starts
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students‚ it would be nothing short of a miracle. Of course‚ there are things that a high school guest speaker just cannot include in her speech. For example‚ the way my mother indulged in various substances after my “incident”‚ and my father and I never sent her to the rehabilitation centre for the fear of even more publicity. Or better‚ how I found my puppy strangled and hung from a tree one day‚ the words “WHORE” in red paint glistening right behind him. And the fact that my ex-boyfriend had left
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THOMAS HARDY (1814 – 1928) Transitional figure between the Victorian novel and Modernist novel‚ from Desperate Remedies (Victorian) to Jude the Obscure (nearer to Modernism). One of the main characteristics of his writing is the mixture of plausible human beings and strange and uncommon events‚ the mixture of real and fantastic without rational explanation‚ based on superstition. Recurrent themes in Hardy’s writing are: Class distinction (Tess is from the lower class whereas Alec belongs
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