A Wife in london

• Who wrote A wife in London?

  Thomas Hardy
• when was A Wife In London written?

  1899 after the second Boer war
• What kind of poem was A wife in London?

  anti war poem
• What poem can you compare war with?

  The manhunt

  The soldier

  Dulce
• What poems can you compare loss with?

  Afternoons

  The Manhunt

  The Soldier
• What poems can you compare love and relationships with?

  The Manhunt

  Cozy Apologia
• what is the first part of the poem?

  The Tragedy
• What is the second part of the poem?

  The Irony
• has Hardy ever faught in war?

  no
• what was Hardy Concerned by?

  the lives of ordinary people which is shown through the use of simple language
• What themes did Hardy often write about?

  Injustice

  love

  unfair treatment of woman
• Give me a quote that has pathetic fallacy?

  "tawny vapour"

  "the fog hangs thicker"
• uses of metaphors?

  "webby fold"

  "waning taper"
• onomatopoeia?


  " a messengers knock cracks smartly"
• graphic imagery?

  " his hand whom the worm now knows "
• Euphemism?

  " he has fallen"
• ironic ending?

  " a new love they would learn "
• tone?

  gloom

  sadness

  bitter

  ironic
• language techniques?

  dashes

  caesura