Thomas Hardy Para Topics Flashcards
The Pine Planters
Unrequited love
Simplicity
Personification of nature
Permanence
Neutral Tones
Dismal setting
Stagnancy
Depression
Anger
Drummer Hodge
Burial of war
Foreign landscape
Injustice of death at war
Stars
I Look Into My Glass
Contrasts between physique and emotions
Attempt to control emotions
Isolation of old age
Animosity towards time
The Darkling Thrush
Depressing setting
Negative description of change of century
Rise of positivity
Hardy’s confusion
On The Departure Platform
Woman leaving
Hardy’s admiration and love
Permanence and reluctance to let go
Everything happens only once
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
Slow country life
Insignificance of war
Love
Nobody Comes
Pathetic fallacy
Contrast between rural atmosphere and modernisation
Isolation and anxiety
No Buyers
Slow, depressing atmosphere
Empathy towards characters
Struggle
The Going
Accusatory tone
Euphemisms
Mental torment
Permanence of grief
During Wind and Rain
Inevitability of time and end of happiness
Nature and death
Unity and unexempt
The Convergence of the Twain
Vanity and pride
Prevalence of nature
Role of fate
The Voice
Longing to see Emma
Impersonal
Mental torment
Accusational tone
At the Word ‘Farewell’
Hardy’s romantic presentation of Emma
Setting
Ambiguous portrayal of relationship
