What have you found interesting about the way Hardy presents his view of life?

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What have you found interesting about the way Hardy presents his view of life?

Hardy’s poems evidently reflect what his views of life are.  His poems overall indicate that he has an unpleasant view of life.

        The period that Hardy had grown up in had affects on his life thus this affects his writing.  The political era he had been bought up in had effects as William Gladstone was Prime Minister at the time Hardy wrote his first novel at the age of twenty-six.  The World War had been a significant part of his life thus altering his views of the world.  The way his poems are written gives us the impression that his own life and own experiences are involved in his style of writing.

        He was born into a creative family, which would later have an effect on him.  His father enjoyed playing the Violin which he often enjoyed playing wit Thomas Hardy at a young age.  His mother passed on her love of reading, Hardy wrote his first novel in 1870.

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        In Hardy’s poems he expresses his attitude towards as life (being mainly negative), especially in the poem ‘Shut out that moon’.  The poem has a very negative view towards life, he believed that life promised so much at the beginning however his view turned bad and bitter.

        The view of life has overall been pessimistic and Hardy expresses this through the negative language used in his poems and early novels.  In the poem ‘The Division’ Hardy uses archaic words, which sows the poem was written in the late 1800’s.

        Hardy’s poems are mostly in structured stanza’s mostly consisting of four ...

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