HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH [OR] A CONSIDERATION [A REFLECTION] ON MY EIGHTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be Much as you said you were. Since as a child I used to lie 5 Upon the leaze and watch [...]
COMMENT CLOSELY ON THE FOLLOWING POEM, PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO WAYS IN WHICH HARDY EXPRESSES A SENSE OF GRIEF . THE GOING Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow’s dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could [...]
COMMENT CLOSELY ON THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT, FOCUSING IN PARTICULAR ON HOW IT EXPRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF HARDY’S VIEW OF A ‘NEW WORLD’. THE DARKLING THRUSH I learnt upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings [...]
The Walk The Year’s Awakening The Voice At Castle Boterel Afterwards. The Darkling Thrush Self –Unseeing. The Walk Subject Matter: The poem, ‘The Walk’ is a simple piece in which Hardy uses a device which marks many of his poems: contrasting events before Emma’s death with the present. Before Emma’s death, Hardy would take his accustomed [...]
1. Church Romance, 2. Convergence of the Twain 3. A Thunderstorm in Town 4. The Man he killed 5. The Going 6. The Haunter. A Church Romance Subject –Matter The poem captures an exchange of romance between a lady and a young [...]
