Hardy Critics Flashcards
“Hardy forged a modern style that nonetheless …
hewed closely to poetic convention and tradition.”
“The modernity of Hardy’s poetry …
Reveals itself in highly ambiguous language “
“A resistance to …
Conventional attitudes and hierarchies”
“Emma’s death was the moment when…
Thomas Hardy became a great poet.”
“It is Emma’s death which…
Is the event which makes him as a poet.”
“Hardy shared many of the same concerns …
As Eliot, although his articulation of them differed.”
“We are always listening to the unique, ….
Inescapable cadences of individual voices. And often the voices of the dead return to life in his lines.”
“The poetry of Thomas Hardy is the very voice of pessimism….
But it is the pessimism of Shakespeare’s tragedies, a pessimism so profound that it goes down to the depths.”
“Mr Hardy seems to prefer the unpleasant …
To the pleasant, the ugly to the fair.”
“Mortality is not a distant concept but….
Something immediate and ever-present”
“Death seldom acts as an end to the relationship but…
Serves as a kind of barrier to full communication between both parties.”
Death seldom acts as an end to the relationship but…
Serves as a kind if barrier to full communication”
“In Hardy’s poems, God is …
Far from benevolent and is instead either maliciously malignant or cruelly, intentionally absent.”
“The wish to believe connects the poems…
When the speaker feels most in doubt of Gods existence, he wants desperately to believe.”
“Hardy’s interest in war is less with war itself than …
The peripheries of war: the wives and parents left behind, the civilians who observed war from a distance.”
“He equates time to a God-like force deliberately…
Or arbitrarily undoing the lives and works of all humans.”
