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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The Voice – Thomas Hardy Analysis Notes: €the Voice€ Analysis In the poem The Voice by Thomas Hardy‚ the speaker of the poem hears what seems to be the voice of his dead wife‚ Emma. He remembers with nostalgia their time together before her death and in doing so three different moments of their lives is presented: the beginning of their relationship‚ the latest days of it‚ and the present. At the beginning‚ their relationship was based on love‚ whereas as time passed‚ the woman changed from the
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Q) A critic has described Hardy as‚ “A poet obsessed with the past.” How far do you agree with the claim? In your answer‚ you should either refer to two/three poems in detail‚ or range more widely through the whole selection. Many of Thomas Hardy’s poems are centered on the feelings summoned up when reminiscing about the past. On the surface‚ it seems as though Hardy is ‘obsessed with the past’ as many poems are laced with memories which conjure up feelings of nostalgia. It is important
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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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Interpretation is said to be an explanation or conceptualization of a 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
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POEM: THE VOICE BY THOMAS HARDY What is the genre of this poem? To me this poem speaks about “Woman Much Missed” Meaning there is someone very dear to the poet that is much missed & is no longer seen. The poem has a sense of Reminiscence‚ Depression‚ Sorrow & Death. What is the tone of voice? The tone of voice is rather Nostalgic‚ Emotive and Anxious. Because he says “Let me view you‚ then‚ Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes as I knew you then‚” What
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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 the quotation with the lone physical action‚ “looked away”. He had just finished fighting with Sue when she entered his lodging after she ran away from the training school.
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Q. How does Hardy make us feel sorry for the character of Sophy? Focus points: - Language - Situation - Character Ans: The themes depicted throughout the story are that of love‚ sacrifice‚ regret‚ relationship issues and most importantly class divisions that were an eminent part of the former world community‚ and are still visible and prominent in some areas of the world. The story is set in the 19th century‚ in the city of London and countryside of North Wessex. The atmosphere of the
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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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Research Paper Thomas Hardy is a novelist‚ a poet‚ a writer and much more he has been a very huge influence on British liturature. Hardy was influenced by the Romantism period and looked up to both Charles Dickens and William Wordworth. Like Dickens‚ he was very much critical of the Victorian Society. Hardy was born June 2‚ 1840 in the village of Upper Bockhampton. Thomas Hardy was more of a poet than a novelist. I am focusing more on Hardy’s poems where he uses irony‚ imagery‚ and dialect
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