the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks ofthe public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working
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(1) Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) : "The Darkling Thrush"
"The Darkling Thrush"
1 I leant upon a coppice gate
2 When Frost was spectre-gray,
3 And Winter's dregs made desolate
4 The weakening eye of day.
5 The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
6 Like strings of broken lyres,
7 And all mankind that haunted nigh
8 Ha
of family weakness, such an assurance ofthe deepest disgrace. She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be v
but after only one year at the seminary, returned in 1848 to Amherst where she began her life of seclusion.
-Around 1850 she began writing poetry.
First poems were traditional and established form at first.
=> Become experimental as time passes
While in Philadelphia, she met man named Charles Wadsworth. She admired him and the man who
=>inspired much of her love poetry
ofthe church, …
Mr. Biggs and Mr. Mason - object to their marriage since it is a bigamous marriage. Rochester's first wife is Bertha whose brother is Mason, the madwoman living in Mr. Rochester's attic.
St. John – admits that he has passion and affections for Miss Rosamond.
Jane - asks why he does not just marry her.
St. John – says that he is very much in love with R