SAMPLE IDEA MAP: THOMAS HARDY

Structured with strict paragraph formation

SADNESSSIMPLICITY

CONCRETENESS

SYMMETRY

DRAMATICCONTRAST PERSONAL

QUALITYMUSICAL QUALITY

THOMASHARDY

Simplicity of languageSimplicity of theme

Transience

The helplessness of humans against the forces of fate & destiny - “The Immanent Will that stirs & urges everything”

Lost innocence Nostalgia

Death

Death in war

In “When I Set Out for Lyonnesse” - the magic & transforming power of love

‘ In The Darkling Thrush” - a moment of hope in the midst of gloom

MOMENTS OF JOY

Poems located in real, easily identifiable settings - often

very ordinary settings

Rhyme, regular beat, alliteration and assonance

1st person makes the poems warm and intimate

In order to stress & emphasise ideas Hardy often places

opposing ideas side by side. For example in:

The Darkling Thrush, During Wind and Rain

and When I Set Out for Lyonnesse

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