Disappointment in Love and Everlasting Struggles against Indifference to Human Suffering in Two Poems by Thomas Hardy

Mahmood, Essam Muhammad

doi:10.69513/jnfh.v1.i1.a3

Disappointment in Love and Everlasting Struggles against Indifference to Human Suffering in Two Poems by Thomas Hardy

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Essam Muhammad Mahmood

College of Education/ Department of English Alnoor University

https://doi.org/10.69513/jnfh.v1.i1.a3

Abstract

Abstract
The major objective of this paper is to shed a bunch of light on two contradictory personalities who are totally different in manners, behaviours, thinking, tendencies and above all response. These two characters are Emma, the innocent tender creature who has devoted all her youth and life to her husband Hardly who is in contrast to her selfish, nonchalant, careless and vain man. In the two poems, namely: "The Voice" and "After A Journey. "These two absolutely contradictory personalities are purely presented.

Keywords

Keywords: Modern English Poetry

Thomas Hardy

Disappointment

Suffering

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