At an Inn
- Created by: Ayo
- Created on: 17-05-17 15:40
View mindmap
- At an Inn
- Thomas Hardy
- critical of Victorian society
- decline of rural society
- people moving to the city
- exploitation of working class
- his mother was educated
- married Emma Gilford in 1874, she died in 1912 and Hardy felt guilty after her death
- married Florence Emily Dugdale, his secretary, in 1914
- critical of Victorian society
- 5 sestets
- narrative
- alternating rhyme scheme ABABCDCD
- dramatic conclusion
- " O severing sea and land"
- invocation lamenting lost love
- Hardy's use of nature features here
- "Ere death, once let us stand as we stood then!"
- full story comes together
- wants love to return
- " O severing sea and land"
- affair
- meeting place
- away from home
- disappointment in love
- "chilled the breath of afternoon"
- cold atmosphere
- stale
- "palsied unto death the pane-fly's tune
- awkward
- old, withered, decaying, deterioration
- contradicts sordid affair that title suggests
- protestation of innocence
- ""never the love-light shone between us there"
- not consummated
- anticlimatic
- "chilled the breath of afternoon"
- perversity of fate
- "veiled smiles"
- assumptions
- superficial love
- outsiders
- "that bliss like theirs would flush the day"
- envy
- stale love everywhere
- "that bliss like theirs would flush the day"
- meeting place
- other poems
- La Belle Dame
- To His Coy Mistress
- Ae fond kiss
- antithesis
- emotive and passionate
- Thomas Hardy
Similar English Literature resources:
Teacher recommended
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made