Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his characters.

7. The setting is used as a reflection of the woman's inner emotions. The sun shines and birds sing with no sign of gloom because she is not actually mourning as she thinks to herself. The lack of sorrow from the woman cause the setting to seem even more lovely to her as she realizes she is feeling joy. The details used by the writer portray a sense of well being and positivity. The woman reaches out towards the window as if her joy is tangible, this is a vey important

Mansfield Park, written by Jane Austen, is a literary classic full of symbolism. One such symbol is that of gardening and landscaping, two highly important factors to the family in this novel. The characters throughout the novel seem distressed at times about this factor in their lives. But why is gardening and such trivial things of such grass and landscaping? “Eighteenth century landowners spent a great deal of time and money remaking the grounds of their estates” (Olsen 316). There were many reasons on why these upper-class people worried so much about this and there were many ways that Austen showed this need for approval and used it to exemplify her characters. Yet, Austen uses the shrubbery and the aspects of nature to reflect her diverse and complexing characters in many of her novels. The symbolism of nature is a mirror to how the characters, and humanity, truly are.

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

"Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamenting blast."

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.

Edgar All Poe uses literary devices in order to create a pragmatically desolate mood in his short story The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe’s famed melodramatic writing style shines through with his use of idioms in this story; his masterfully described setting also helps to create a feeling of dread and isolation. The story begins with the description of a bleak house surrounded by an unkempt yard complete with rampant bushes, rotten trees, and a putrid tarn. The narrator of the story tells how the bleakness and wildness of the estate has inspired a sense of dread and isolation in him.

The setting in both novels brings a deeper meaning to the scene. The authors use weather to create tones for the scenes. For example, storms can create a sense of anger or confusion, whereas sunlight may generate a sense of happiness. Both novels are set in a cold, dreary time, adding to the theme of isolation throughout each.

2) In my found poem I was trying to illuminate the imagery and figurative language found throughout the book, and show how it enhances the reading experience. This passage was describing the sun setting and the night flowers blooming. By condensing the passage into a found poem the figurative language and imagery were highlighted, the not needed words cut out, and the words in general being switched around. In the poem there is one simile that was in the original passage that I think stands out, “Darkness poured out, covering trees till they were dim as the bottom of the sea.” I chose this scene because in my opinion poems are better when they’re full of figurative language, and this one is.

Even when there is this beautiful garden, it is hard to see it as beautiful. This theme is created through the elaborate descriptions of the beautiful flowers despite the raging war everywhere else in the world. This passage creates the illusion of beauty in the world when nothing is truly beautiful elsewhere. The speaker holds on to the beauty of these flowers and questions how something so beautiful could occur during something that is so horrible for her. This passage exemplifies Daisy finding something good out of this time. There is a shift of mood in this passage. The word choice began with “warm, bloom, great, frilled” these words created an enchanted mood, then there was a transition of mood. In the second part, the word choice was “sharp, forced, obscene, splayed, passion, rage, wasn’t beauty” (183), this shifted the mood from enchanted to despairing. This indicates that the speaker saw beauty in the flowers, but gradually she realized what was happening around her. The passion and rage that she sees in the garden relates back to what is happening in her life. There is passion in her for Edmond and rage in knowing she can’t see him and never may

In The Visit, the setting is Guellen, which at the beginning is a poverty stricken and falling apart, and ends a gleaming, prosperous community. Here is an example of that changes effect on the theme when Alfred Ill says, “I want to see a bit of the scenery, a bit of the town, I’ve lived here nearly seventy years… Don’t the children look happy; and sweethearts, all over the place.” The old Guellen is dying off as Ill approaches his final moments, therefore even in a beautiful moment the theme of death is still present. Continuing, the death of everything Ill knows and cares about is a sign that his death is imminent. The setting can easily reflect the themes the author chooses to have guided the work they write by being a backdrop for the moods the themes

The imagery in Hardy’s poem shows a distinct variation between the two social classes of

Certain things are mentioned and things are described in a way that brings the poem into reality. In the poem “Still Life in Landscape” the author writes, “[it] was night, it had rained, there were pieces of cars and half-cars strewn, it was still, and bright” (Olds). This phase describes the lighting during the time of day in this poem. It also provides the reader with the weather condition. The phrase also gives vivid descriptions to things that were seen in the road, obviously after an accident involving a drunk driver. The author later states, “approached it out of neutral twilight, broken glass on wet black macadam” (Olds). This statement provides the setting necessary so the reader can visually see not just the lighting but also the conditions of the road surface. The author then states, “like an underlying midnight abristle with stars" (Olds). This phrase presents the reader with a visual representation of the night sky and the outer lying planets. It was dark outside and very late at night. The reader can mentally picture this dark night on this road where life ended for a woman. When looking at the poem “The Planned Child” visual descriptions are given that bring the setting in the poem into a visual reality for the reader. The author states, “she took the cardboards out of his shirts as if pulling the backbone up out of his body and made a chart of the month and put her temperature on it” (Olds). This sentence allows the reader to actually

Thomas expresses the view that he is ‘half in love with pain’ in various poems, particularly ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Rain’. In both of these poems he seems to resent his troubles but also appreciates them in a rather unusual way. He expresses this by juxtaposing his inner states of joy and melancholy and the outer states of weather and the natural world.

The first section of Hardy’s poem “At Castle Boterel” is just the first stanza and like Heaney’s poem, it sets the scene for extended descriptions of his strong memories. It opens in the present with Hardy “driving to the junction of lane and highway”, both of which are significant to Hardy’s life at the time – the junction indicates Hardy has to make a decision on wheter to move on with his life or stay stuck in the past, the lane signifies his relationship with Emma, and the Highway represents the rest of his life. Pathetic fallacy of the “drizzle” falling on the “wagonette” reflects the sombre, unhappy quality of the present. When Hardy says that he looks “behind” this is symbolic of him about to look back on the time in his life with Emma. The adjective “fading” conveys the fact that despite the fact that the forthcoming memory is strong, things are fading in his head due to old age.

The Structure, style and poetic techniques of a poem contribute greatly to the development of the central idea of a poem. Three poems with central ideas that stood out to me were ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy, ‘Days’ by Philip Larkin, and ‘Remembrance’ by Emily Brontë. The central idea of each of these poems revolve around the idea of time and change. Firstly, I will discuss how in ‘The Darkling Thrush’ the simple and traditional structure, the bleak yet straightforward style and techniques such as vivid imagery and capitalisation combine to develop the central idea of change. The same can be said for the simple structure and style used in ‘Days’ which combine with poetic techniques such as metaphors to develop Larkin’s argument against time and change. Finally I will discuss how the idea of time is developed through techniques such as vivid imagery and symbolism in ‘Remembrance’ along with changing styles and a slow, consistent rhythm.