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... emotion , as Wordsworth's bleak moorland also is . And in the last stanza Hardy presents this ashen scene as a total picture , an ' involute ' or charged combination of emotion and concrete objects , which during his subsequent painful ...
... emotion , as Wordsworth's bleak moorland also is . And in the last stanza Hardy presents this ashen scene as a total picture , an ' involute ' or charged combination of emotion and concrete objects , which during his subsequent painful ...
Page 77
... emotion which is unashamedly passive and self - pitying , its argument is a piece of emotional blackmail in which the man pleads for the woman's pity because he knows he can't have her love . And yet one can't help being impressed by ...
... emotion which is unashamedly passive and self - pitying , its argument is a piece of emotional blackmail in which the man pleads for the woman's pity because he knows he can't have her love . And yet one can't help being impressed by ...
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... emotion though their main function is not to communicate a sense of boredom - they exist as real facts . Hardy valued fact as much as Browning and he also des- cribes it for its own sake as well as using it to represent otherwise ...
... emotion though their main function is not to communicate a sense of boredom - they exist as real facts . Hardy valued fact as much as Browning and he also des- cribes it for its own sake as well as using it to represent otherwise ...
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Basil Willey beauty Beeny blank blind Browning Browning's called chap cold Coleridge Colin Falck colours Crabbe dark dead death describes Donald Davie Dylan Thomas Dynasts Emma emotion essay existence face feeling Florence Henniker gaze Geoffrey Grigson ghost Grigson Hand of Ethelberta Hardy's poems heath Hugh Sykes Davies human Hume Hume's idea images imagination immortality impressions intense kind lamp landscape last stanza Leslie Stephen light lines living looking lovers means mechanical memory mind mirror Mnemonist Moments of Vision moon Muse natural novels objects observed facts partly passage pathetic fallacy perceived perception Phantom Horsewoman philosophy phrase poem's poet poetic poetry present quotes rain reality River Stour says scene seems sense shade shadow shape Shelley Shelley's shows sight soul sound stanza suggests Tess things Thom Gunn Thomas Hardy thought tone tree trochaic visible visionary visualised voice Wessex Wessex Heights wind woman word