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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares the poetic styles of Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot. The writer argues that the verse of Hardy and Eliot has in common the fact that both poets take a negative view of life and society. However, they each expressed this pessimism in very different ways. Hardy's verse is tightly structured, while Eliot preferred free verse. An examination of representative poems, "Hap" by Hardy and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by Eliot, shows that these different styles were ideally suited to the aims and perspectives of each poet. No additional sources cited.
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they each expressed this pessimism in very different ways. Hardys verse is tightly structured, while Eliot preferred free verse. An examination of representative poems, "Hap" by Hardy and "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by Eliot, shows that these different styles were ideally suited to the aims and perspectives of each poet. Hardy was part of the
Victorian era. While the Victorians endeavored to control nature through technology, as the Industrial Revolution began to change the nature of Western societies, Hardy saw this as a useless
endeavor as he perceived the universe to be inexorably ruled by fate or chance. In other words, Hardy found it impossible to believe that the world is ruled by a
benevolent God. His subsequent overwhelming sadness and frustration is evident in his verse. The structure and control of his verse contrasts with the sentiments expressed, which portrays a world without
reason or purpose. In "Hap," Hardy writes that if some "vengeful god" were to call to him and telling him, laughing, that his suffering was his "ecstasy" and that
this deity profited by his pain (lines 1-4), then Hardy would be able to steel himself and die, knowing that he had been intentionally brutalized by a power greater than
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Greeks imaged, in which the vagaries of
lifes suffering could be attributed to capricious and vengeful gods. It was a cruel world, but it made a certain sense of suffering. In the third verse of this poem,
Hardy addresses the reality of life, which is that suffering has no explanation. The "purblind Doomsters" of fate and chance could just as easily have strewn "Blisses about my pilgrimage
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