Thomas Hardy, evoked by some contemporaries as transparent and dismissed by critics as self-educated, has gradually been positioned at the center of the nineteenth-century British culture in all its complexities. It’s in the moment, when the wife he had ignored for years suddenly passed away, he became a great poet. Hardy had been writing poetry for many years before, however remorse shook him to greater intensity of awareness and the poems he had composed of his grief and regret are his most moving. Hardy later published, Satires of Circumstance (1914) which was composed of eighteen poems. Three of which, “The Walk”, “Your Last Drive”, and “Rain On A Grave”, I will be discussing. In “The Walk”, Hardy illustrates the loss and loneliness he
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This shows how their relationship once was, how she would usually never join him on these walks. This is not only literal, but also figurative. He was alone on this walk as he sometimes felt alone in the relationship. Their relationship went through extremes. Hardy was said to have fallen head over heels in love with her, but they had struggles within their marriage and later became estranged. Emma was unable to join him due to ill-health “weak and lame” (Line 5). He took her with her so to speak remembering the many times they had walked together. When he returned she would be there in the room to share his return “...And I went alone, and I did not mind, Not thinking of you as left behind.”(Lines 7 and 8). When reading the end of the second stanza it is inferred …show more content…
The language techniques used by Hardy are personal pronouns and can also be portrayed as feeling of how he is speaking directly to his wife. He uses the word “you” to establish this. In the first stanza he uses “you” to explain how he always left his wife when she needed him most. But, in the second stanza he uses “I” to show how lonely he is when he walks without his wife. The use of personal pronouns makes the poem more personal to Hardy and his wife which also enables the reader to feel more sympathy for Hardy and his life without his
This shows how their relationship once was, how she would usually never join him on these walks. This is not only literal, but also figurative. He was alone on this walk as he sometimes felt alone in the relationship. Their relationship went through extremes. Hardy was said to have fallen head over heels in love with her, but they had struggles within their marriage and later became estranged. Emma was unable to join him due to ill-health “weak and lame” (Line 5). He took her with her so to speak remembering the many times they had walked together. When he returned she would be there in the room to share his return “...And I went alone, and I did not mind, Not thinking of you as left behind.”(Lines 7 and 8). When reading the end of the second stanza it is inferred …show more content…
The language techniques used by Hardy are personal pronouns and can also be portrayed as feeling of how he is speaking directly to his wife. He uses the word “you” to establish this. In the first stanza he uses “you” to explain how he always left his wife when she needed him most. But, in the second stanza he uses “I” to show how lonely he is when he walks without his wife. The use of personal pronouns makes the poem more personal to Hardy and his wife which also enables the reader to feel more sympathy for Hardy and his life without his