This is an overview and a quote analysis of the poem 'A Wife in London' by Thomas Hardy. It is included in the poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature if you are doing the exam of WJEC Eduqas. It was made by me for the 2019 GCSE exams which I have just completed and of which I recieved a Grade...
A Wife In London
CONTEXT:
Written in 1899 at the end of the Victorian era
He had lots of relationships with younger women
He was estranged with his wife
He thought that the industrial revolution would hurt humanity
He though that the Boer war – in South Africa - was unethical as 22,000
civilians died, these people were forced into the war
RHYME SCHEME:
Meter is inconsistent and varies throughout the poem
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