Hardy Structure Flashcards
1
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Neutral tones
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- ABBA- sense of trapping and closing in, idea of reflection
- No regular metre- stumbling and hauling due to speakers unstable sense of mind
2
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I look into my glass
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- Hymn- mainly about praising God but he is begging to God, questioning his fate
- ABAB- ticking clock, image of ageing, central meaning of the poem
3
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Drummer Hodge
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- Ballad- extended stanzas, Hodge’s importance
- Hymn- never had a funeral
- Iambic tetrametre alternating with iambic trimetric- beat of drum
- ABAB- beat of drum
- Roman numerals- classical feel, keeping his memory alive
4
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Darkling thrush
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- Volta- goes from negative to hope through thrush
2. Hymn- reflects lexical field, does not end with a certainty in God, ironic
5
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On the departure platform
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- Punctuation- stanza 2 there is none, she is moving away from him faster than he can think, stressing how distraught he is about to become
- Indents- she is moving further away from him
6
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The going
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- All one sentence- can’t breath, breathless
- Constantly shifting metre- shows its not fixed, trying to make sense of the events
- Stanza 6- ellipsis and hyphenation mimics the speakers feelings on how he is struggling to get the words out
7
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The voice
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- Cyclical- woman calling, inescapable
- Last stanza is shorter- he is giving up
- Dactylic tetrametre- fading, makes him seem unsure (like the reader)
8
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At the word farewell
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- Shattered ballad- metre is disrupted, ghostly presence, another force is actin against them but Fate overpowers it
9
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During wind and rain
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- ABCBCDA- A repeats, cyclical, death is inevitable, D is damming rhyme which doesn’t rhyme with anything else
- 4 stanzas 7 lines- 4 seasons 7 days, inevitability of time passing, circle of life
- Spondees- lines 6-7 are slower, corrupts vignettes leaving the reader with a sour taste at the end of each stanza and the poem
10
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In the time of breaking nations
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- Ballad rhyme scheme- order and continuity of life and how it moves on
- Metre- almost ballad, doesn’t quite fit, stumbling like the horse but still goes on, life is partially affected but never stops
11
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No buyers a street scene
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- Irregular line- like the wagon wavering
2. Inconsistent rhyme scheme- like the way they are walking
12
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Nobody comes
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- Lyric- personal expression of speakers emotions
2. Iambic trichroic metre- falling like the leaves as the second beat is unstressed
