Thomas Hardy Notes on Hap

The poem does indeed have a rhyme scheme, yet doesn?t conform to conventional forms of rhyme such as A, B, A, B, etc. Rather, each stanza seems to follow the order of A, B, C, A, C, B, which may not be apparent to the reader at first, but doesn?t

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 poetic writing is archaise. His language elegant but awkward and his work difficult to comprehend, I enjoyed the poetry of Hardy for its diversity of themes, its earthly realism and his descriptive and metaphorical language. I identified and empathised with his poetry of love and loss, change and decay. Whether he is describing the transience of life and the onslaught of time "Down their carved names the raindrop

To begin the poem Duffy uses a shocking short sentence, which contains contrasting word choice to convey an ironic tone from Havisham. The contradictory oxymoron also startles the reader and grasps our attention as we do not expect this beginning.

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and the other begins”(Poe, par. 3). Edgar Allan Poe, as well as many other writers throughout history, have questioned the ideological standards of society. A noteworthy debate that has surfaced time and time again through varying time periods is the dispute of logical and rational intelligence versus the impassioned emotion of one’s inner-self. These two conflicting philosophies divided and defined the different characteristics of literature during the Enlightenment era and the Romantic era. In order to understand why various authors such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and John Locke wrote in their differing styles, it is important to understand the historical context that inspired these authors. Although these approaches in style were exceedingly different, remarkable works of literature emerged from both time periods. While the various writers of the Enlightenment era had a more historical motivation for writing, the writers during the Romantic era composed an overall more amusing anthology of literary works.

The poem is structured in a way which follows the proper metre for a sonnet, however, it is unusual in a sense that it is free verse and has no rhyme scheme. The sentences are broken to fit the iambic pentameter. This creates pauses, and a choppiness in the flow

Furthermore, the poem is a special case when it comes to its rhyme scheme. Composed of eight lines, the first stanza forms an octave. This octave has the rhyme scheme “abbaabba”. The remaining six lines form the second stanza. This sestet has the rhyme scheme “ccdeed”. The octave and sestet combine to form a Petrarchan sonnet (“Petrarchan sonnet”). The poem is set over the course of two days. Each day is represented by a stanza.

The poem is formed of eight stanzas, each one is six lines long except for the fifth stanza which is an octet. The stanzas are formed of sets of three rhyming couplets in the

It has an octet and a sestet, the octet being the part of the poem which has 8 lines and the sestet the part with 6 lines. The poem is written in iambic pentameter rhythm. It does not have a constant rhyme scheme, he puts in rhyming words at the end of a line every so often. Sassoon may have chosen this form of poetic writing because it suits the style of poem he is writing. Sassoon followed the rules of this poetic form to an extent, however, as I stated before, he does not have a constant rhyme scheme.

This verse lyric again investigates Edgar Allen Poe's topics of death and misfortune and may

The Shakespearian English sonnet is the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, eded, gg. The sonnet seems to be addressed to a young lover. The theme is something we love is going to be gone soon. That is, the person appreciates something or love someone more than it is fading, or even more when it's actually gone.

The poem Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy talks about love in a negative way. The poem has a depressed tone to it; In the poem, the speaker explains how their lover is fake and the love is not really there. The speaker goes on about the signs of their lover being fake; then, they explain love being deceiving. In fact, the theme of the poem is that love is deceiving. The purpose of the poem is to expressed feeling to a ending love.

The structure of this sonnet corresponds to a Petrarchan sonnet. This is identified by the rhyming scheme “abba abba cde cde”. The sonnet is constructed by an octave, which are two quatrains combined then a sestet following after that.

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”

Then at least life would not be so random and man would have some kind of notion of what to expect. Instead the Fates are responsible for our sorrow, not because they take pleasure in doing so, but because they are "partly blind" and do so for no reason. In the last two lines Hardy writes that "These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown / Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain."(13-14) For Hardy, the sorrow and pain are that much worse because they could have just as easily been joy and bliss. Instead of finding some kind of purpose or reason, Hardy sees only a universe ruled by the laws of nature. It has been said that Hardy was influenced by Darwin and perhaps this poem records Hardy's troubled response to Evolutionary Theory. The scientific advances of the time were a direct contradiction to the Christian God with whom Hardy was raised. This was probably very frightening and confusing. In Hap Hardy longs for the time of his youth, a more innocent time with the universe controlled by a benevolent higher power.<p>

The form of ‘God’s Grandeur’ is an Italian sonnet, but with some alteration. Even though Hopkins does not use sprung rhythm here, he varies his sonnet structure from the traditional iambic pentameter. Typically, a sonnet contains 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines); the Italian sonnet is characterized by having 1 octave (8 lines) and 1 sestet (6 lines). In ‘God’s Grandeur’ a similar pattern is followed, however, Hopkins presents a technique he often employs in other works as well, that of using the octet to present a personal or a sensory experience and the octet in order to provide some reflection on the topic (Gardner 221).