The Pine Planters

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

• based on the novel ‘the woodlanders’ (hardy wrote this!)
• based on the character Marty South
• written 1909

Question 2

Themes

Answer 2

• love
• fate
• time
• grief

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

• split in 2halfs
• 1st half rhyme scheme ABCB
• 2nd half rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEF
• first half in quatrains
• lack of caesuras

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

• enjandent allowing thoughts to run on
• final stance change in tense
• use of first person to express feelings
• rhetorical questions and exclamation marks
• use of monologue

Question 5

Language

Answer 5

• simple language shows that she is uneducated
• ‘I feel by his eyes’ age observed him so closely that his eyes give away how he feels
• ‘starts a sighing’ personification of the tree doesn’t want to be there, just like human don’t ask for life
• ’ we pass away’ symbolises death, the tree will live a longer than them
• ‘Kind Fate’ typical hardy
• ’ change its clime’ the change of the season shows her wanting to change her feelings
• ‘voiceless’ how she is nieve and doesn’t want to change her love