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1
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Themes

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Love

Death

Visions

Power

2
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Hardy

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‘Romantics’ influenced

Victorian realism, modernism and classism

Poem reflects grief of his wife

Transitional poet

3
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Techniques

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Rhythm breaks down- reflects fading memories

Assonance ‘faltering forward’- stutter, realisation wife is gone

1st person- personal experience

Negative sharp imagery ‘thorn’- pain of loss

Sibilance, onomatopoeic imitation of wind- mistaken for a voice