Neutral tones

Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy (1867) Neutral Tones BY THOMAS HARDY We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;          – They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro          On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have

‘Neutral Tones’ is a love poem but one of a peculiar kind. Written in 1867, the poem is more about loves immorality than its virtues. Thomas Hardly illustrates his true feelings towards love back then. In this poem he shows us that love deceives, rather than love brings happiness. The atmosphere is created to have effect on his relationship. Thought the poem Hardly created a deep and dark atmosphere to build up tension and link it to his own relationship which is becoming pessimistic. Hardly also

“Neutral Tones,” a poem written by Thomas Hardy, is composed of four stanzas with each stanza consisting of four lines. The first and fourth line of each stanza rhyme, while the second and third line of each stanza rhyme. Each line is short enough to be spoken with a single breath, and the last line of each stanza is slightly indented. Both the tone and diction throughout the poem is consistently depressing. The theme of “Neutral Tones” is that love is not always what one would expect it to be. The

At the most superficial layer, the speaker’s in both Porphyria’s Lover and Neutral Tones, written by Thomas hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in Neutral Tones seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. Porphyria’s Lover speaker ends up murdering his beloved at the end the poem. While this isn’t the case with the speaker in Neutral Tones, the two speakers are much more similar than we might think. The speaker in Neutral Tones doesn’t outright murder his lover, but there is a considerable amount of disdain

would be no way of feeling anything at all, which would drive everyone to be completely numb. Throughout the following poems “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”, “The Flea”, and Thomas Hardy’s “Neutral Tones” the authors all share their experiences about love, with a major emphasis on

How does Hardy use poetic techniques to detail changes in his relationship with his wife over time in ‘Neutral Tones’ ? Thomas Hardy uses the variety of techniques in writing the poem, telling about how desperate his love-life being when a woman whom he loves, died. As the first stanza starts, Hardy straight away set his time and location in the poetry into past memories. ‘We stood by a pond that winter day’ Basically everything is started with cold winter where the writer and his wife

Neutral Tones In the poem Neutral Tones, Thomas Hardy describes the end of a relationship. Neutral Tones was written in 1867, and was included as part of the collection Wessex Poems and Other Verses. The poem is presented as a dramatic monologue that reflects Hardy’s pessimistic and depressed views, which are shown throughout many of his poems. In stanza 1, Hardy describes the scene, whilst not describing the lover that he is with. The neutral colours ‘sod’ and ‘gray’ expresses a sense of bleakness

In the poem, “ Neutral Tones” ,by Thomas Hardy, the readers will inquire information from the author through use of imagery. In the first three stanzas Hardy reminisces about a memory he has with a past loved one. During the last stanza, Hardy reflects how the relationship shaped him. The speaker is aggravated mentally by the disappointment of love, believing that things were once beautiful.  He is devastated and frustrated when love perishes and feels deceived by the sweet promises love had to offer

unavailing throughout “Neutral Tones” – however the poet presents a more dichotomous view of love. Perhaps this pessimistic view is reflected by the abundant amount of disappointments which Hardy faced in life. Firstly, Byron asserts his raw emotion of bitterness using lyric poetry; a form derived from ancient Greece – used copiously as a way to mediate philosophies of love through religion. Byron’s use of bilabial language in the opening line “When we two parted” creates a tone of indignation, alluding

“Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy conveys the deceiving nature of love through metaphor, the symbolic environment in which the poem takes place, oxymoron and poetic sound devices. Among Hardy’s pessimistic poems, “Neutral Tones” is one of the most acclaimed. At the heart of the sixteen line poem with an ABBA rhyme scheme, he encounters the demise of a once loving relationship. The former promising love that he shared with his partner has dissolved into bitterness and its effects leave him devastated