Thomas Hardy poems mindmap (cont)
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- Created on: 14-03-15 17:23
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- Thomas Hardy (continued)
- At Castle Boterel
- revisiting - retrospective, looking back at his old self and Emma
- thinking back to when he last visited
- 'drizzle' - gloomy, dull setting
- "What we did...and we talked of / Matters not much" - they were together and that's all that mattered
- 'rude reason' - strong reason
- transitory - moving or evolving constantly
- "it filled but a minute" - momentary occurrence
- personal perspective, looking back
- "my sand is sinking" - Death often depicted with an hourglass
- "one phantom figure" refers to Emma - she is there spiritually while he is there physically
- revisiting - retrospective, looking back at his old self and Emma
- The Voice
- "how you call to me, call to me" - second person, directly written to her, makes it very personal / intimate
- "now you are not as you were" - unhappy, distant during marriage
- "when our day was fair" - when they first met, no tension
- "Can it be you that I hear?" - questioning himself
- "as I knew you then" - past tense, connotes distance
- listlessness - restlessness, can't stay in one place
- metaphysical vs force of nature
- "Thus I;" - turn in the poem
- "leaves falling" - autumn of his life (getting old), metaphysical of not being able to move on
- At Castle Boterel
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