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This 6 page paper examines how the life of author Thomas Hardy influenced his poetry. Illustrative examples from several of Hardy's poems are provided to support the writer's thesis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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working-class stock, a fact which for whatever reason he took great pains to hide later in life. His father was a mason, and it was expected that his son
would apprentice to learn the trade as well. However, young Thomas Hardy had other plans. He much preferred the exciting people and places which had been introduced to
him by books to what he considered to be his familys mundane existence. Despite Hardys embarrassment over his humble origins, he was quite proud to be a descendent of Captain
Thomas Hardy, the famous British commander who served under Admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and cradled the fallen admiral in his arms when he died.
This was the subject of Hardys most ambitious effort, an epic poem about Captain Hardy and the Battle of Trafalgar, "The Dynasts." As with many other literary works,
it is difficult to separate fact from fiction in "The Dynasts." Though much of the poem was based on fact, Hardy may have exaggerated the heroic exploits of his
celebrated ancestor, which both reinforced his family legend and adhered to the romantic literary tradition of the time. After turning his back on masonry as a career, Hardy worked for
awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, the marriage had become one of mutual unhappiness.
Emma Hardy suspected her husband of infidelity with the female writers he claimed were nothing more than friends. His 1909 poem, "Times Laughing-Stocks" was Thomas Hardys bitter commentary
about an unhappy marriage and the marital unfaithfulness which inevitably results. When Emma Hardy died three years later and Thomas Hardy married his secretary Florence Dugdale shortly thereafter, it
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