Neutral Tones,Thomas Hardy

• context


  ● Unhappy marriages and relationships: hence depressed tone

  ● Met and married Emma while writing this poem - tempestuous nature of their relationship
• ‘Starving sod’

  metaphor personifying the soil as miserable, sibilance = despair
• ‘The sun was white’ ‘grey'

  lack of colour, lifeless, characters apathetic