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What is the theme of the poem "Paying Calls" by Thomas Hardy?

What is an analysis of "The Garden Seat" by Thomas Hardy?

Critically analyze the poem "Afterwards" by Thomas Hardy in detail.

How might one analyze Thomas Hardy's poem "He Didn't Expect Much"?

Analyze Hardy's poem "In a Wood."

What is the meaning and the analysis of the poem "Thoughts of Phena" by Thomas Hardy?

What is the theme of "The Masked Face" by Thomas Hardy?

Please give a summary of the poem "Weathers" by Thomas Hardy.

What is an analysis of The Distracted Preacher?

Explain the irony found in the poem "Her Immortality" by Thomas Hardy.

What is the meaning of the poem "She Hears the Storm" by Thomas Hardy?

I need help analyzing Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion."

Was is a critical appreciation of the poem "The Harbour Bridge" by Thomas Hardy?

Please provide a critical analysis of Thomas Hardy's poem "Snow in the Suburbs."

What are the literary devices used in the poem "The Masked Face" by Thomas Hardy? I want to know all the literary devices used in this poem such as metaphor, personification, etc.

Who are the two speakers conducting a dialogue in “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”  

Thomas Hardy wrote his poetry in: a. blank verse   b. in standard forms   c. with regular rhythm and rhyme   d. Petrarchan sonnet? British literature

Explore characterization in Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm."

What are the figures of speech and sound devices found in the poem "Thoughts of Phena" by Thomas Hardy?

What is the tone of "The Workbox" by Thomas Hardy?

Provide an analysis of "The Moth Signal" by Thomas Hardy.

What is the atmosphere in the poem "Drummer Hodge"?

What is repeated in lines 13 and 14 of "Snow in the Suburbs"? What is the effect of this repetition?

Thomas Hardy's poem: After The Visit can you explain just the last stanza of the poem ? Come again to the placeWhere your presence was as a leaf that skimsDown a drouthy way whose ascent bedimsThe bloom on the farer's face. Come again, with the feetThat were light on the green as a thistledown ball,And those mute ministrations to one and to allBeyond a man's saying sweet. Until then the faint scentOf the bordering flowers swam unheeded away,And I marked not the charm in the changes of dayAs the cloud-colours came and went. Through the dark corridorsYour walk was so soundless I did not knowYour form from a phantom's of long agoSaid to pass on the ancient floors, Till you drew from the shade,And I saw the large luminous living eyesRegard me in fixed inquiring-wiseAs those of a soul that weighed, Scarce consciously,The eternal question of what Life was,And why we were there, and by whose strange lawsThat which mattered most could not be.

How does Thomas Hardy make “I Look into my Glass”  a memorable poem?

Paraphrase the last stanza of Thomas Hardy's "On the Departure Platform." —‘And why, young man, must eternally fly A joy you’ll repeat, if you love her well ?’ —O friend, nought happens twice thus ; why,                  I cannot tell !

What is the workbox in "The Workbox"?

What are the major themes in Thomas Hardy's poem "A Trampwoman's Tragedy"?

What are the major themes in the poem "The Harbour Bridge"?

Please provide a summary of the poem "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse" by Thomas Hardy.

What are the complete works of Thomas Hardy?

How does Thomas Hardy's poem "Drummer Hodge" bring out the absurdities of war?

How does the rhyme and metre contribute to the meaning of Hardy's "The Spell of the Rose", especially to the use of the eponymous rose and the dialogue structure?

I want as much help on 'Snow in the Suburbs' by Thomas Hardy as possible.  What it is about, the form, figures of speech & generally as much as there is to know about the poem as possible.  Big thanks, K

Describe figurative speech in "The Workbox" by Thomas Hardy.

In the poem "I Look into My Glass"  has the line "Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin!"           What is Hardy is trying to say?          

Write a critical analysis of the poem "In Church" by the poet Thomas Hardy.

What is the theme of Wessex Tales?

critiacl appreciation how do we read the poetry of thomas hardy

How can one define or describe the poetic style of Thomas Hardy?

Woiuld you agree with the statement that "Death is a common theme in Hardy's Poetry"?

What are the narrative techniques used in “On the Western Circuit” by Thomas Hardy?

Stanzas 4 and 5 of the poem "Ah, Are You digging on my grave" By Thomas Hardy Stanzas 4 and 5 add a new dimension to the poem.  What is the poet's view of the one who lies beneath the grave?  How does the last stanza contradict this view?

How might one compare and contrast the poetry of Thomas Hardy with the poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins and A. E. Housman?

How does Thomas Hardy convey a sense of isolation in the poem "Nobody Comes"?

How are "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Jarrell and "The Man He Killed" by Hardy similar in the point they are trying to make about war? Need to emphasize the themes

What is the rhyme scheme and metre in Hardy's "The Spell of the Rose"?

This stanza is taken from poem "Afterwards" by Thomas Hardy. I need explanation of following stanza. When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"

Please provide an analysis of the poem "Where the Picnic Was" by Thomas Hardy, including literary/poetic devices used such as language, personification, structure, themes, and tone.

How is Hardy's sense of waste and frustration involved in human life depicted in "On the Western Circuit"?