Hardy Topic Sentences

Question 1

Neutral tones

Answer 1

1. Speakers feelings through imagery of nature that is drained of colour and life
2. Explores lack of understanding between the couple through the central ideas of ‘riddles’
3. Subverts positive images, associating them with death and negativity to show his anger

Question 2

I look into my glass

Answer 2

1. Portrays speakers feeling s as separate from his body- resenting the body that he lives in
2. Personification of time makes it seem like a malicious force

Question 3

Drummer hodge

Answer 3

1. Lack of respect that man has for Hodge shows how unvalued his life was
2. Exposes how innocent and confused Hodge was
3. Overriding theme is the contrast of where he is from and how he is becoming apart of a foreign place

Question 4

Darkling thrush

Answer 4

1. Liminal spaces associated with nature stresses Hardy perceived change into gloom
2. Emphasises pessimistic atmosphere through the use of lexical filed of death and hyperbole
3. Structural and emotional heart of poem an unexpected joy appears: a singing thrush

Question 5

On the departure platform

Answer 5

1. Constant theme of separation
2. Several dramatic contrasts showing the speakers pain in losing the one whom he loves
3. Sympathy is amplified when he realises she is completely out of sight

Question 6

The going

Answer 6

1. Rather than being upset or grief-sickly the speaker seems to be bitter that she’s dead
2. Stops focusing on the immediate past and instead focuses on the happiness in the years gone by
3. Breaks down after he claims he can move on from the past

Question 7

The voice

Answer 7

1. Ghostly nature shows his grief as he is unable to let her go
2. Movement from excitement and doubt to uncertainty and bleakness shows the difficulty that he is having with his grief
3. Pathetic fallacy emphasise speakers loss

Question 8

At the word farewell

Answer 8

1. Speaker is admiring the woman who he lives from a window
2. Constant theme of ghost-like nature
3. Realised that thigh he has to part from his love Fate will eventually bring them together

Question 9

During wind and rain

Answer 9

1. Portrays nature as a malign force which is running all the joyous moments
2. Creates sinister moments within happy vignettes towards the beginning in each stanza

Question 10

In the time of breaking nations

Answer 10

1. First scene is very simple and peaceful
2. Represents how agriculture and its people shall carry on with their traditions throughout time
3. Final vignette shows how love between human will prevail regardless of the harshness of war

Question 11

No buyers a street scene

Answer 11

1. Lexical field of pain and suffering make the sellers seem burdened and tired
2. Pony is typically a symbol of vitality but it seems lacklustre and unanimated and is a metaphor for the owners themselves

Question 12

Nobody comes

Answer 12

1. Speakers environment, both nature and modernity seem drained of vitality
2. Liminal spaces and alien nature of car increases the speakers discomfort in his environment
3. Anticlimactic line stresses speakers loneliness