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How does Hardy powerfully convey distress and grief in
this poem?
Hardy transmits distress and grief in many ways. One
way is the fact that the poem is written for a woman, making it more personal because
there is a dialogue between Hardy and the woman he refers to. At the same time,
the reader can understand his feelings for her. For example: “Can it be you
that I hear? Let me view you, then
Standing as when I
drew near to the town.”
This dialogue is between him and
the image he brings of her, like a ghost, he feels the woman near. Hardy wants
and misses the woman that she was when they first met. This is shown in the
first stanza, “When you had changed from the one was all to me,
But as
at first, when our day was fair.”
Another way is the use of natural elements as wind and
wet grass in an opened field. He wants to trap her with these breezes because
he feels distant from her, feeling pain and missing her.
This means that he suffered for the changes she passed
through and didn’t like the woman she turned to. He misses the girl she met at
first and as she won’t be as before, he distresses. All this causes him grief .
Manuela Scatena Bugallo, Jorge Lin Kang and Martina Izurieta.
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