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    Thomas Hardy Poems

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    HAP IF but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky‚ and laugh: "Thou suffering thing‚ Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy‚ That thy love ’s loss is my hate ’s profiting!" Then would I bear‚ and clench myself‚ and die‚ Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased‚ too‚ that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain‚ And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? --Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain‚ And

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    Oxen by Thomas Hardy

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    TP CASTT: Oxen by Thomas Hardy Title- I predict the poem will be about something about an ox. In addition‚ I predict the oxen in the poem will symbolize strength‚ so an idea of strength or power might be portrayed. Paraphrase- It is Christmas Eve and an elder is telling the children a story near the fire. The children initially believe the story about Oxen kneeling and did not doubt the fact at all. Years later‚ the children obviously grow older and eventually do not believe the story

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    Discuss the importance of setting in the novel you have studied “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”‚ by Thomas Hardy‚ is set in the years of 1880 to 1890‚ in Wessex‚ which is in the southwest of England. Settings in the novel‚ such as Talbothays‚ Flintcombe-Ash‚ Sandbourne and Stonehenge are important because they help us to understand the main character‚ Tess D’Urberville. In the novel‚ Tess D’Urberville and the setting she is in‚ mirror each other. This allows the reader to have an understanding of

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    Digging on My Grave?” was first published in the Saturday Review on September 27‚ 1913‚ then in Thomas Hardy’s 1914 collection‚ satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces. The poem reflects Hardy’s interest in death and events beyond everyday reality‚ but these subjects are presented humorously‚ with a strong dose of irony and satire. This treatment is somewhat unusual for Hardy‚ who also produced a number of more serious poems concerning death. In “Ah‚ Are You Digging On

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    The Voice by Thomas Hardy

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    Victoria Rey April 30th‚ 2014 The Voice Thomas Hardy The poem “The Voice” by Thomas Hardy‚ deals with a man’s pain of loss and the difficulty of accepting the absence of his loved one. By seeing the lexical choices‚ language and punctuation of the poem‚ we can notice his sense of grief‚ by showing the reader how alone he feels without her‚ and how much he misses and loves her. Stanza one begins with the phrase “Woman much missed” which conveys feelings of mourning and regret

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    Withered Arm Analysis

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    Thomas Hardy- The withered arm and other Wessex tales “How does Thomas hardy portray the role of female characters in at least two of his stories?” As a child‚ Thomas Hardy was told tales and traditions by –not only his father- but his mother and grandmother. He has a lot of female family members around him. Many of hardy’s stories are loosely based on his own life and experiences. ‘The withered arm’ is ‘full of memories of Hardy’s youth’ and includes some of his experiences. Thomas Hardy

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    Thomas Hardy- "The Voice"

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    The first stanza begins when Hardy listens “the voice” “Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me” the phrase “you are not as you were” suggests to the reader a feeling of nostalgia as he remembers “the one who was all to me”‚ the long vowels transmit melancholy‚ and it is emphasized by “all to me” that creates an echoing effect. To continue this feeling the poet finishes “But as at first‚ when our day was fair” this phrase‚ started with staccato

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    How is conflict presented in the text you have structured? Thomas Hardy’s poem ’The Man He Killed’ focuses on the senselessness and futility of war‚ where a man has killed another quite simply because they were fighting on opposing sides in a war. Thomas Hardy’s "Drummer Hodge’ is a poem that laments on the horrors of war. It particularly focuses on the personal tragedy of a young innocent boy from Hardy’s Wessex. Drummer Hodge explores the theme of war and can be summarized as a young soldier

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    The Withered Arm

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    Does Hardy portray a typical view of ghost stories with “The Withered Arm”? In my opinion I don’t think so. Let’s have a look at the comparisons. A typical ghost/supernatural story has usually three ghost sightings but in “The Withered Arm” it’s a different story. The ghost of a living person appears once in the form of a vision. This is very unlike the stereotypical ghost stories of today. I feel Thomas Hardy has uncovered a whole new type of ghost story. One of the messages the story conveys is

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    my heart will go on

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    Top of Form Bottom of Form Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English author‚ novelist and poet‚ who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement. Though he always regarded himself as a poet and claimed poems as his first love‚ they are not as popular as novels composed by him. Hardy’s huge popularity lies in the large volume of work‚ together known as the Wessex stories. These novels‚ plotted in a semi-fictional place‚ Wessex outline the lives of people struggling against their

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