IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH: THE MODERNIST POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY
IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH: THE MODERNIST POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY

Author : Mehmet Akif BALKAYA
Number of pages : 318-325

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse Thomas Hardy’s four poems: “Hap” (1898), “The Impercipient” (1898), “the Darkling Thrush” (1900), and “After a Journey” (1913) by putting forward that Hardy is a modern poet with the contents of his poems although he is considered as a Victorian novelist. The confusion, uncertainty and the complexity of the modern world make Hardy confused, doubter, unbeliever and pessimist. Therefore, his confusion, doubts and pessimism for the uncertain and changing world represented in his poems, in a way, makes him modern as studied in this paper. In “the Impercipient”, and “Hap”, Hardy cannot understand and find the existence of a god but wonders how the others believe in him. In his poems, Hardy idealizes or praises neither nature nor god. Hardy’s pessimism as a writer of naturalist movement makes him different from the Romantics and the Victorian poets.

Keywords

Victorian poetry, Modernism, Thomas Hardy, Pessimism, Modern Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Confusion.

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