snaith//A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy

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  • A Wife in London
    • Social Context
      • Boer War
        • Many casualties
    • Language
      • Pathetic Fallacy
        • 'fog hangs thicker'
      • Simile
        • 'Like a waning taper'
      • Euphemism
        • 'has fallen'
        • 'whom the worm now knows'
      • Onomatapaeic
        • 'knock cracks smartly'
      • Foreshadowing
      • 3rd Person
        • 'She'
        • 'His'
    • Mood and Emotion
      • Grief
      • Sorrow
      • Confusion
        • 'Fog hangs thicker
          • Ideas are unclear
        • 'Fresh - firm - penned'
          • Recently written
          • confident
      • Hidden
        • 'Fog hangs thicker
          • Ideas are unclear
      • Anxiety
        • 'dazes'
      • Solomn
        • 'tawny vapour'
    • Attitude
      • Hardy wants to make us question telegrams
        • 'shaped so shortly'
          • Been told very little about the truth of war
          • left in question as to what actually happened
          • Not revealing the truth
      • Makes us question whether we agree with what families are told
        • 'shaped so shortly'
          • Been told very little about the truth of war
          • left in question as to what actually happened
          • Not revealing the truth
    • Content
      • A present theme of death
      • Soldier died in war
      • Wife receives a telegram
        • 'He - has fallen - in the far South Land'
          • Soldier died in war
          • euphemism
          • '-' shows shock and stutter
      • Wife receives husbands letter
        • 'A letter is brought whose lines disclose...full of his hoped return'

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