Voice
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"The Voice" Analysis
"The Voice" is a very pensive, gently flowing poem, written by an English novelist Thomas Hardy. It could be said to be an Elegy, as the poem expresses views of both hope and disappointment at someone's absence (death) that had obviously disturbed the poet's life. This melancholic piece of writing is presented in such way that many feelings are provoked in one, as they emerge through the vivid images the author successfully builds up for the reader to see. Hardy uses many ways that arouse tender emotion, while describing how he feels over not being able to forget that one very significant lady, person, to him.
In the first stanza, the poet imagines an individual very dear to him, a woman who is most probably resting in peace, calling to him, telling him she is no longer the kind of female he last remembers her as. She has returned to the days of her own beauty and lust, which immediately grabs the reader's attention, making them crave for more detail. "Call to me" is a phrase that repeats twice deliberately in order to emphasize the feeling of hope and significance of the woman the poet invites the reader's mind to absorb. From this stanza can we already tell that the two had been in a long term relationship, if not marriage, and that they have somehow split up which greatly affected the poet's life. Hardy misses his lover to the extent that he imagines every single bit and piece of the woman's say to him, so he gets more motivation and feel for his wording, it being ever so powerful. He puts a lot of stress on words of certain significance, such as "much" and "missed" to indicate sentiment that, if thought out thoroughly, is getting out of hand...