Neutral Tones
- Created by: Grob135
- Created on: 07-05-18 16:45
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- Neutral Tones- Thomas Hardy
- Context
- His poems often dealt with the theme of disappointment in life + love
- Focused on tragic characters and critised the social problems of Victorian England
- Structure/ Form
- Written in quatrains, simplest and most recognisable poetic form
- Regular rhyme scheme ABBA, not regular rhythm- echos the uncomfortable feeling between the two of them
- Structure is cyclical, the speaker hasn't come to terms with the events and revisits memory
- Direct address to the partner, more personal
- Imagery/ Language
- Poem is set in winter -the lifeless season reflects the their lifeless love and bitter mindset of the speaker
- "sun was white"
- "few leaves lay on the starving sod"
- Second and third stanza shows that she was the one no longer in love, "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing"
- "Since then keen lessons that love deceives" + your eyes were on me like eyes that rove", shows betrayal and creates bitter tone
- Word choices of "ominous", "bitterness" and "tediousness" help to grasp the concept and tone of their relationship
- Poem is set in winter -the lifeless season reflects the their lifeless love and bitter mindset of the speaker
- Compare for
- Marriage/ Relationships (especially difficult relationships) with Nettles, Manhunt or My Last Duchess
- Betrayal, La Belle Dame Sans Merci or My Last Duchess
- Conflict/ separation
- Nature, Nettles
- Memories, My Last Duchess, One Flesh or A Complaint
- Social Pressures, 1st dates, Valentine, i wanna be yours
- Context
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