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A 4 page paper which examines how much of the work of the poet Thomas Hardy contains sadness but little melancholy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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is melancholic. It is a sincere sadness that, as noted by the students assignment, "stems from his fundamental inability to believe in a benevolent, personal god despite his strong wish
to be able to do so." The following paper examines how Hardy expresses this sadness and how it is not melancholic and thus involving experience and loss, but simple sadness
at something unattainable. Hardy and Sadness The works of Thomas Hardy, although sad, seem to have the slightest bit of pleading hope in them that makes them just
powerful enough in their sadness to gain the interest and support of the reader. This is very important in relationship to how Hardy expresses his sadness without melancholy. In
Hardys poem "The Darkling Thrush," for example, the entire poem is sad and immersed in a darkness without hope as seen in the following lines: "His crypt the cloudy canopy,/
The wind his death-lament./ The ancient pulse of germ and birth/ Was shrunken hard and dry,/ And every spirit upon earth/ Seemed fervourless as I" (Hardy 11-16). In these
lines there is a clear darkness of sadness that involves, perhaps, the pointlessness of living and life as though it were routine and simply existed without hope or meaning. If
the poem did not deviate from this perspective it would become something of a pointless poem that was only possessed of sadness. The final lines, however, pull the reader into
a position where they can better relate and thus understand more of the poem from a personal perspective as the narrator offers until the final lines regarding the bird that
seemed to bring some joy into the environment: "Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew/ And I was unaware" (Hardy 31-31). In this, despite the heavy sadness and pointlessness of
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