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Thomas Hardy was a Victorian novelist and poet whose works continue to captivate readers with their exploration of fate, love, and the human condition.Set against the backdrop of rural England, particularly his fictional region of Wessex, Hardy's novels offer a realistic and often pessimistic view of life.
Thomas Hardy explores several themes in his poem ‘In a Wood ,’ offering insights into human nature, disillusionment, and the contrasts between nature and society. Through graphic imagery and thought-provoking language, Hardy conveys these themes to the reader. One prominent theme in the poem is the disillusionment of the speaker.
The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky. Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh. Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be. The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament.
Many of the poems written by Thomas Hardy reckon with life’s various anguishes, from existential exhaustion to the long-suffering grief of losing a loved one. ‘To Life’ isn’t devoted to any sorrow in particular and instead wrestles with the perpetually disappointing and depressing nature of reality.
The Voice. Thomas Hardy. 1840 –. 1928. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were. When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear?
Thomas Hardy's poems are often defined by their poignant and overwhelming portraits of grief. This one is no different, as it punctures the heart with its repetitive lament and woeful tone. Yet it also stands out because this grief is not over the death of a loved one but rather the death of any love between two people still living and coupled.
In 1898, he saw his dream of becoming a poet realized with the publication of Wessex Poems. He then turned his attentions to an epic drama in verse, The Dynasts; it was finally completed in 1908. Before his death, he had written over 800 poems, many of them published while he was in his eighties.
