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Contemporary Literary Identities: Part 3, Thomas Hardy
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A broad summary of the poetic outlook of the contemporary poet, Thomas Hardy, whose work was influenced by his views on religion and coloured by his participation in the 1st World War. Includes extracts of a few of his acclaimed poems and commentary on how these express his general perspective on l...

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  • August 6, 2023
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Broadly...
Hardy portrays God as seemingly oblivious to
human suffering,
As though He planned creation, yet regrets all the
more the ignorance and baseness of man, the
crown of that creation;
Hardy suggests that, when it is all over, God will
regret all the suffering on earth as though His
design was secretly flawed, yet He could do
nothing to fix it

,
, HAP p.7
Hardy suggests that fate can
be both kind and cruel... IF but some vengeful god
would call to me...and laugh:
Life is ruled by the disjuncted “Thou suffering thing...thy
'happenstances' that none can love's loss is my hate's
predict. profiting!” Then would I bear
and clench myself...But not
And, how can one be angry at so...These purblind
a creation that isn't all bad, yet Doomsters had as readily
it isn't all good either? strown Blisses about my
pilgrimage as pain. (lines 1-
How can one be content
14)
within such a paradoxical
realm of uncertainty?

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