and what literary evidence suggests that Hardy could be deemed as a Victorian and a Modernist writer. Thomas Hardy was interested in creating images and was regarded as a lyric poet by Wordsworth whom in the preface to [1]The Lyrical Ballads (1798), describes as a successful poet who shows [2]‘the relation between the human imagination and the natural world’ Karadas (2008: 162). Hardy makes use of various figurative devices to communicate this idea: for example, in the first stanza of the poem he