At an Inn

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  • Created on: 17-05-17 15:40
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  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
      • perversity of fate
      • "veiled smiles"
        • assumptions
        • superficial love
        • outsiders
          • "that bliss like theirs would flush the day"
            • envy
            • stale love everywhere
    • other poems
      • La Belle Dame
      • To His Coy Mistress
      • Ae fond kiss
        • antithesis
        • emotive and passionate

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