A Wife in London - Thomas Hardy

• Themes

  • War
  • Loss
  • Love
  • Tragedy
  • Death
  • Relationships
• Context/ 1840-1928

  • Celebrated English novelist & poet
  • Victorian realist
  • Wrote about peoples lives and hardships
  • Often wrote about conflicts
• Poems to compare

  Mametz Wood- impact on war
• Beginning

  "tawny vapour"

  • pathetic fallacy
  • world is gloomy
  • sad tone
  • sets a cold/ dark/ miserable setting
• Beginning

  "webby fold"

  • struggling
  • emotions
• Middle

  "dazes to understand"

  • confused
  • not accepting the tragedy
• Middle

  "fog hangs thicker"
• End

  "page-full"

  • hyphens emphasize uneasiness
• End

  "new love that they would learn"

  • irony
  • widows greif
  • tragedy has been emphasized
  • "new love" = tentative language, innocent love