Hardy begins the piece with a dreary scene: a waggonette on a road in the …show more content…
It is showing the pure moments of beauty, love, and unexplainable importance that no life is denied completely. Hardy relays the pain of loss effectively. His words are at times woeful and heavy on the heart, yet they speak eloquently of the great hurt that can accompany great love. He brilliantly illustrates the fickle, yet ever moving nature of times passing. He shows the fleeting unforgettable moments of joy, and the drudging yet passing sorrows of life. He reminds us that life is a fleeting thing, that “Time’s unflinching rigour” is an unstoppable force (Hardy), and that life is sinking away. However, he recalls, also, that life is important. That in all of time perhaps a singular story is the one a hillside will chose to hold for all eternity. For Hardy, and I believe for all, love is the “Something that life will not be balked of “(Hardy). It is love, and all its intricacies, the joy of it, and the pain at its loss, which no life can be denied. It is this that all will know, and that no life can be fully lived without. It is moments of love that make time not quantitative but qualitative. For Hardy this is the thing of uttermost importance in a