snaith//A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy
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- Created on: 21-04-17 14:01
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- A Wife in London
- Social Context
- Boer War
- Many casualties
- Boer War
- 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'
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Mood and Emotion
- Grief
- Sorrow
- Confusion
- 'Fog hangs thicker
- Ideas are unclear
- 'Fresh - firm - penned'
- Recently written
- confident
- 'Fog hangs thicker
- Hidden
- 'Fog hangs thicker
- Ideas are unclear
- 'Fog hangs thicker
- 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
- 'shaped so shortly'
- 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
- 'shaped so shortly'
- Hardy wants to make us question telegrams
- 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
- 'He - has fallen - in the far South Land'
- Wife receives husbands letter
- 'A letter is brought whose lines disclose...full of his hoped return'
- Social Context
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