Quotes
“We stood by a pond that winter day” - lack of progression
“Keen lessons that love deceives and wrings with wrong” - love made up of bad
About/Context
20th Century
Hardy famous of pessimism
Against industrialisation ruins nature
View of love
Feelings presented
Pessimistic
Disillusioned
Bitterness
Drained emotion
What to analyse
Cyclical - no change
Elegiac - mourning