Thomas Hardy Essay Examples Page 2

At the beginning of the Victorian period women’s lives were very limited: they could not own money; they were their husband’s property, and if they had no male relatives to support them they were destitute. Among the few respectable jobs available were teaching and taking in embroidery, but these were poorly paid. Until 1863 girls…

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Thomas Hardy Is an Intriguing and enigmatic poet whose poetic themes deviate from war, nature and heroism to love, the transience of life and the death of the soul. Though penned some eighty years ago, the poetry of Thomas Hardy remains remarkably accessible and identifiable to a modern reader. While some critic’s claim that his…

  Joanna demands more money, not for need, as they aren’t stuck for money yet, but for greed, as since she married Shadrach, Emily has also married – a wealthy merchant / trader, who makes her rich. Emily is very happier, perhaps happier than Joanna – “Emily declared that she had never supposed that she…

Many poets have chosen to write on controversial topic of war. Some are in favour of it and some are strongly apposed to it. Poets often choose to write about war to show the true human suffering that goes on. A good example of a poem that shows the pointlessness and sadness of war is…

‘Tony Kytes the Arch- Deceiver’ was written in the 1890’s and was set in Dorset. Rural life then was very hard and marriage was extremely important for the woman in Britain because, they needed a husband to support them as it was very difficult to get a decent job that paid a sufficient wage for…

Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Voice” is a short, four-stanza poem with an alternating rhythm scheme, the first and third, and second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming. The subject if the poem is a man remembering his lost love. As he walks around the places he went with her, remembering her, he imagines that…

Castle Boterel is about an old man returning to a place that is significant to his youth and his love. Hardy starts the poem visualising a wet and gloomy day. He says: “And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette”, “And see on its slope, now glistening wet.” He does this to contrast with the time he…

The question, which has been set, is about heroism so I will start the essay by giving my personal opinion of a hero and the dictionary definition of a hero. The dictionary definition of a hero is ‘a man or boy who is admired for doing something very brave or great’. This definition is very…

Both poems are written with the same theme in mind, ‘Love lost and love remembered’; although they are quite different in the way the author has put across his ideas, feelings and emotions. ‘The Voice’, I would say is the more complex of the two poems and is about a man pining after a lost…