(Hardy/Eliot) Isolation
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- Isolation
- Midnight on the Great Western
- 'flame / played down'
- Oxymoron (care-free, childlike action negated by reality)
- Victorian middle-class view of children (they should be 'seen and not heard')
- Victim of societal corruption (oxymoron suggests intermittent state)
- Oxymoron (care-free, childlike action negated by reality)
- 'your soul a sphere'
- 'our rude realms far above'
- Alliteration adds a harsher tone to the poem (adulthood= bitterness)
- 'Our' pronouns suggests Hardy takes responsibility for society's corruption
- Victorian England was famous for its rapid Industrialisation (Hardy was a romantic)
- Hardy had a lot of respect for TS Eliot's work
- Victorian England was famous for its rapid Industrialisation (Hardy was a romantic)
- 'far above' suggests boy is safe for the moment
- Heaven is usually placed 'above' (reflects Hardy's atheist beliefs)
- J. Clipper: 'Man is alone in the universe'
- Heaven is usually placed 'above' (reflects Hardy's atheist beliefs)
- Sibilance creates a protective effect (or no corners to hide from corruption)
- Soul is impenetrable
- Repetition of 'Journeying boy' creates distance - reflecting on society
- 'our rude realms far above'
- 'flame / played down'
- Animula
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- 'Encyclopedia' is a modernist image, suggests education
- 'behind' creates a recessive/ backward effect
- Continuous theme of lack of movement (Prufrock)
- Poem follows a structure: in this section the 'soul withdraws from the world'
- Sibilance emphasises he is letting life slip away
- 'window' suggests enlightenment but is never opened
- Watches others but does not act (ignorance was bliss)
- Hadrian died having lived a full life. Now Eliot fears for his soul
- 'the simple soul', (Dante's purgatory) a seeker of God who is deflected by daily trifles and follies.
- 'Encyclopedia' is a modernist image, suggests education
- 'curl up the small soul in the window seat behind the Encyclopedia'
- Portrait of a Lady
- 'Juliet's tomb'
- Title alludes to novel by Henry James, which challenges expectations of women in society
- Oxymoron creates a bereft effect (left a virgin)
- Eliot uses Shakespeare's play to emphasise lack of communication leading to death
- 'dying fall'
- Opening speech of Twelfth Night is quoted at the end (beginnings/ ends)
- Epigraph of Dante's Inferno used at the beginning of Prufrock (men & women)
- 'love song' is personal/ intimate, but Eliot's persona suggests unrequited love
- Eliot insists that poetry must be written with impersonal intent (not as himself)
- 'love song' is personal/ intimate, but Eliot's persona suggests unrequited love
- Epigraph of Dante's Inferno used at the beginning of Prufrock (men & women)
- Relationships are always doomed to fail (lack of communication)
- Opening speech of Twelfth Night is quoted at the end (beginnings/ ends)
- 'Juliet's tomb'
- A Game of Chess
- 'Burnished throne'/ 'Philomel'
- Allusion to Cleopatra's affair with Anthony (resulting in her suicide)
- Philomel was ***** by a barbarous king and her tongue cut out (transformed into a nightingale by the Gods)
- Eliot also uses the literary past to draw 'heat he could not derive from life'
- Ancient stories of sexual destruction continued in modern society (sexual decay)
- 'HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME'
- Bustling pub scene draws upper + lower classes together
- Everyone is running out of time - 'good night' means its too late
- Reference to Hamlet and drowning of Ophelia
- 'Fear death by water' - slow death (disappearing into nothingness)
- Reference to Hamlet and drowning of Ophelia
- Repeated sparsely at first then lines culminate rapidly at the end (climax of society)
- 'I said'/ 'he said' - words, no action
- 'Burnished throne'/ 'Philomel'
- The Phantom Horsewoman
- 'draws reign and sings to the swing of the tide'
- Punctuation pulls Hardy back and forth between fantasy and reality
- e.g. 'bring -' & 'go...'
- Emma grew up in Cornwall and loved the sea, but moved away once they were married
- e.g. 'bring -' & 'go...'
- 'draws reign' stops the flow of the poem in the last line (only in death does she become his main focus)
- First and last lines of every stanza could be a poem by itself (lost in his thoughts)
- 'gaily' and 'shaly'
- Half rhyme suggests he is losing grip on reality (emphasises distance between them)
- Emma died in 1912, after a tumultuous relationship
- Emma Gifford: Hardy 'understands only the women he invents'
- Indented lines 2-8 are more list-like due to the restricted number of words
- Half rhyme suggests he is losing grip on reality (emphasises distance between them)
- Rhythmic beat landing on words like 'sing','swing' & 'tide'
- Grief has became a habit/routine (can't move on or forget)
- Hynes: 'stoic regret of the irrevocable passage of time'
- Grief has became a habit/routine (can't move on or forget)
- Romanticism (artistic/ literary movement which developed a deep love for nature & the supernatural)
- Michael Cox believed that Victorians 'excelled' at Ghosts
- Punctuation pulls Hardy back and forth between fantasy and reality
- 'draws reign and sings to the swing of the tide'
- Midnight on the Great Western
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