Loss is something everyone has to go through, throughout life. There’s no way of escaping it, there’s always something that’s gone in one’s life. Bronte’s poem, Remembrance, and Hardy’s poems, The Darkling Thrush, and Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Are three poems that help us better understand the things we don’t really notice that we are missing. In the poem Remembrance, by Emily Bronte, one understands the loss of a loved one. In the poem The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy one is told how it feels to have no hope, having all hope gone! The last poem by Thomas Hardy is, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Which helps us really think about how it is when one has gone. These three poems written either by, Thomas Hardy, or Emily Bronte, have
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The speaker seems to have lost hope, but lost hope in what? He is alone outside, and is speaking of the past, the eighteenth century will soon be gone, and the past is dead. Is he distraught with the fact that time is going on and the century is now over? I believe that this is truly it, he has lost hope in the past, but there’s really nothing you can do about the past it’s done for. One can only hope that the future is like the past, if they liked it, or better, if they thought it was horrible, no one/nothing can change the past it’s done …show more content…
Remembrance being, are we the ones who purposefully forget about those who have passed? That once, one has passed we try to stay away from those memories to keep oneself happy. The Darkling Thrush, would be do we lose hope as time goes by, do we not have the same hope and belief our ancestors one did? It’s true in a way, we don’t believe as strongly as our parents, or grandparents did at one place. Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? This is one of the most painful questions to think about, are we forgotten by everyone once we are gone. Do our loved ones think that it’s not necessary to do things for us because we are no longer here? All poems, stories, tales, etc. have a message or question in them one as a reader just has to know how to look for them. Or maybe that’s something we also tend to forget on purpose to
The speaker seems to have lost hope, but lost hope in what? He is alone outside, and is speaking of the past, the eighteenth century will soon be gone, and the past is dead. Is he distraught with the fact that time is going on and the century is now over? I believe that this is truly it, he has lost hope in the past, but there’s really nothing you can do about the past it’s done for. One can only hope that the future is like the past, if they liked it, or better, if they thought it was horrible, no one/nothing can change the past it’s done …show more content…
Remembrance being, are we the ones who purposefully forget about those who have passed? That once, one has passed we try to stay away from those memories to keep oneself happy. The Darkling Thrush, would be do we lose hope as time goes by, do we not have the same hope and belief our ancestors one did? It’s true in a way, we don’t believe as strongly as our parents, or grandparents did at one place. Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? This is one of the most painful questions to think about, are we forgotten by everyone once we are gone. Do our loved ones think that it’s not necessary to do things for us because we are no longer here? All poems, stories, tales, etc. have a message or question in them one as a reader just has to know how to look for them. Or maybe that’s something we also tend to forget on purpose to