Snaith - A Wife In London
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- Created on: 08-04-17 17:06
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- Social Context
- A Wife In London - Thomas Hardy
- Content
- Death and War
- 'He - Has fallen'
- Tragedy
- Irony
- 'His hand whom the worm now knows'
- Shows how she received a letter from her husband after knowing of his death
- 'His hand whom the worm now knows'
- Death and War
- Attitude
- Making you question political views
- Trying to make you see the lack of information in telegrams
- 'Flashed news'
- Negative
- Mood and Emotion
- Confidence
- 'Firm - Penned'
- Hope
- 'And of new love that they would learn'
- Mourning and Upset
- Irony
- 'His hand whom the worm now knows'
- 'Page full of his hoped return'
- Shows irony as she knows he's dead, yet he wished to be back with his wife
- Links with the theme of hope
- Confidence
- Language
- Euphemism
- 'Has fallen'
- May be seen as a more subtle way of telling the families they've died
- 'Worm now knows'
- Suggests he's been buried as 'worms' live underground, where he will now be
- 'Has fallen'
- Oxymoron
- 'Glimmers cold'
- Links with foreshadowing
- 'Glimmers cold'
- Pathetic Fallacy
- 'Fog hangs thicker'
- Shows her feelings and arcane (mysterious) thoughts in her head after she knows of her husbands death
- 'Fog hangs thicker'
- Foreshadowing
- 'Glimmers cold'
- 1st Stanza foreshadows the mans death
- 'Like a waning taper'
- 'Waning taper' links to a burning out candle, symbolising death
- Simile
- 'Like a waning taper'
- Rhyme Scheme
- Imitates Social Climate
- Euphemism
- Self
- Angered by the briefness of telegrams
- Empathetic towards the wife who lost her husband
- Upset about the story within the poem
- Content
- 2nd Boer War 1899-1902
- Huge Casualties
- Between the British and Dutch Settlers
- A Wife In London - Thomas Hardy
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