Paragraph Topics Flashcards
(13 cards)
1
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Neutral Tones? (3)
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- Uses landscape to reflect his misery.
- Characterises lover as malevolent, implying she takes pleasure in his discomfort.
- Hardy reflects of the memory.
2
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At the Word Farewell? (4)
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- Implied attraction towards Emma.
- Pathetic fallacy and use of early mornings to create a gloomy, possibly eerie atmosphere.
- A ‘Plan’ was ruling the couple of which he was oblivious to.
- Hardy does suggest that Emma had allure but his description focuses more on fate than feelings.
3
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The Going? (4)
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- Hardy moulds his grief into monologue form, directly addressing his deceased wife in an intimate and deep manner.
- Hardy seems to want to believe his wife is still present.
- Hardy juxtaposes past happiness with present grief, emphasising his yearning for past happiness.
- Overwhelmed by a climactic wave of emotions, presenting himself as a broken man.
4
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The Voice? (3)
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- Hardy is grieving Emma and reflecting on the feelings he has felt.
- Shift from past happiness to present misery and emptiness, as Hardy accepts Emma is gone forever. She is now nothing more than a memory.
- Hardy’s weakening and inability to cope without Emma are vividly conveyed in the final stanza.
5
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On the Departure Platform? (3)
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- Shows tender concern he feels for Florence.
- Hostile presentation of the crowds, powerfully reflecting both Hardy’s tender concern and his reluctance to let her go.
- Hardy’s wider message of that past moments can never be recaptured.
6
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In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’? (3)
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- Dismissive of rural life, appearing to present it as mundane and monotonous.
- Hardy pushes the reader the realise the importance of these apparently mundane and ordinary details.
- Hardy provides solace and comfort for the reader, by juxtaposing the endurance of this rural world, a reassuring constant, with war itself, which seems fleeting and unimportant.
7
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The Convergence of the Twain? (3)
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- Stanzas 1-5 emphasises mans arrogance and pride by juxtaposing futile vaingloriousness of building the titanic.
- Presents fate as an omnipotent, indifferent force, emphasising how the collision was predestined to happen.
- The poem moves to the inevitable climax that the reader expects, the collision between the ship and the iceberg.
8
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The Darkling Thrush? (3)
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- Hardy uses pathetic fallacy to create a bleak, unsettling atmosphere, reflecting his anxiety and lack of hope about the new century.
- Hardy’s melancholic mourning for this past century is developed via personification.
- However this is juxtaposed with an image of hope, ‘full-hearted’ song of the thrush, sharply contrasting with the bleak, barren landscape.
9
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Nobody Comes? (3)
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- Hardy uses pathetic fallacy, with the bleak autumn evening and the sinister portrayal of impending night to convey his anxiety and despair, as he waits for Florence’s arrival.
- Hardy presents the man made world as threatening and unsettling.
- Importance of lack of movement.
10
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The Pine Planters? (3)
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- Her beloved’s indifference towards her.
- In the second half of the poem the message is universalised.
- Marty’s love and pain, anguish and suffering it causes, she says nothing and endures the pain.
11
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I Look into My Glass? (4)
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- Looking into the mirror, he reflects on his ‘wasting skin’, however his emotions haven’t equally diminished.
- Reflects that if his emotions had equally diminished he would be able to calmly face the future.
- Time is personified as a sadistic power stealing from mankind.
- Even as an old man, Hardy is agonised by powerful emotions he felt in his youth, made even more painful by his age and fragility.
12
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No Buyers? (5)
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- Hardy paints a miserable picture of a man and woman trying to sell their products.
- Descriptions suggesting distance in the poem.
- Turks head as a symbol.
- Horse presented as weak and struggling.
- Powerful and moving climax to the end of the poem.
13
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During Wind and Rain? (3)
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- Unity shown, but undercut by images of destruction of time.
- Everyone is equal in death - no one can escape.
- Material possessions worthless when faced with death.
