Thomas Hardy 1840-1928

Thomas Hardy was known for his ability to create the imagery and rural landscape of the countryside. Being a modernist, he had the ability as well with capturing the historical, natural, and personal experiences. Here's a great example of his writing talents that display his ability to convey the powers of events, Wessex Heights "There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crisises when I stand," Say,on Ingen Becaon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly, I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be." In the lowlands I have no comrade, not even the lone man's friend- Her who suffereth long and is kind: accepts what he is too weak to mend: Down there they are dubious and askance: there nobody thinks as I, But mind- chains do not clank where one's next neighbour is the sky." Skip to the following 13-18, Down there I seem to be false to myself, my simple self that was, And is not now, and I see him watching, wondering what crass cause Can have merged him into such a strange continuator as this, Who yet has something in common with himself, my charysalis. I cannot go to the grat grey Plain, there's a figure against the moon, Nobody sees it but I, and it makes my breast beat out of tune; I feel that the description used to describe this place called Wessex is the place where he wa born and from the poem, it will be the place where he will die. We gather that he is a nomad,or a drifter. He feels different because of the way thinks, that alone causes him to be unacceptable and no friends not even a dog. And he feels because he doesn't let the typical stuff that bothers or the weights of the world hold him down. I thimk that this is a feeling that we have all felt at some time or another.