'Hardy Neutral Tones – Pathetic Fallacy Essay\r'

' passim Neutral Tones, hardy effectively communicates his feelings approximately cheatmaking using the natural world and its (neutral) act upons and characteristics. His handling of rich imagery of the natural world produces a melancholic none astir(predicate) experience, which resounds through the upstanding poem portraying the end of an affair amongst venturous and his former yellowish brown.\r\nThe backdrop of the poem is repose in the first stanza as a ‘ spend day’. brave uses the time of year to look at a sense of melancholia as spend frequently has a negative connotation and is associated with colder feelings and emotions. In this way, ‘winter’ could be representing the frosty nature of the relationship and how tough’s former l everyplace was cold towards him. The descriptions in the first stanza ar all colourless (neutral calibers) which suggests that unafraid(p) feels as if he has no colour in his bread and butter, no l ove. His negative feelings about love are conveyed especially effectively here because they are express right at the beginning of the poem †this sets an discontent inflect for the first stanza, which deepens further into the poem.\r\nIn the import line of the first stanza, venturesome describes the sunbathe as ‘ clear’ and ‘chidden of God’. His use of the colour ‘white’ suggests that his feelings about love are blank (or neutral), lifeless, and rase depressing. It contrasts with the typical colour of the sun †yellow †a symbol for vibrancy and happiness, both emotions that Hardy does not feel about or achieve from pleasant the woman. In addition, the sun and pond are bank note and non-angular in shape; this portrays that Hardy feels as if on that point is no bunk from the negativity that he finds to be attached to his love and that it is never ending, in a loop. Hardy also may take aim opinet for the sun to symbolise his relationship †God could have do it shine with yellow positivity, but instead He has made it a drab white tone; perhaps Hardy feels as if his relationship and love have been condemned by God.\r\nHardy’s misfortunate feelings are further emphasised by the alliteration of the letter ‘L’ in ‘a some leaves lay’ †when read aloud, the sound of the letter creates a kind of idle that unsettled tone which relates to Hardy’s feelings towards love. He feels idle yet unsettled in the sense that whilst he cannot do anything to stop his affair from falling apart, he does not wish for it to do so. The ‘L’ sound contrasts with the ‘S’ sound later in the line, which is a harsher, more than acute sound, perhaps representing the attitude of the lover towards Hardy at the end of their affair.\r\nThe image created by the ‘ a couple of(prenominal) leaves’ symbolises Hardy’s feeling that the love in t he midst of him and his lover is disintegrating; the leaves are related to natural life dying, but in this instance Hardy uses a metaphor to relate the leaves instead to love dying. The ‘ ravenous sod’ suggests that Hardy feels that his relationship is ‘starving’, as if it were not being ‘fed’ enough love to keep it strong and happy and it has therefore been bring down to ‘sod’ †treaded on and not special.\r\nThe leaves that ‘had fallen from an ash, and were gray’ symbolise the way that Hardy and his lover have also ‘fallen’ out of love. ‘Ash’ could mean ashes as well as the type of tree, carrying on the theme of death that was introduced earlier in the stanza. Also, the colour of ashes as well as the leaves is ‘gray’, a neutral colour, suggesting that Hardy has quite an reserved feelings about love. In addition, the description of the fallen leaves from the ash is quite g entle †that is, that the lecture is relatively reserved. This conveys the lack of erotic love that Hardy and the woman share within their relationship.\r\nAt the end of the third stanza, Hardy’s lover’s bitter grin is described as sweeping ‘thereby/Like an ominous domestic fowl a-wing…’ This suggests that Hardy feels a sense of impending excoriate about love and his relationship with the woman as if he knows that something harmful is bound to happen in the future and that the relationship is going down a dangerously steep downhill slope, destined for a crushing ending. The ‘bird a-wing’ kind of represents how his love and oestrus for the woman is flying away, like a bird. another(prenominal) interpretation is that Hardy feels that the ‘ominous bird’ mocks him, circling over him like a bird of prey †he is stuck in a cycle of love and hurting in his relationship whilst the he imagines the bird move up free.\r\ nIn the last stanza, Hardy refers to the sun as â€Å"God-curst”. This depicts a change in Hardy’s feelings about love from the beginning of the poem †his language starts to show anger, rather than sadness. The reader or listener may interpret this as a apparitional reference from Hardy †perhaps he feels that his flunk love is inevitable because it has been predefined by God (this introduces the bringing close together of fate coming into the equation).\r\nThe poem starts and ends with the same arrangement and memory †the pond. This suggests that Hardy feels like he cannot escape from the constant cycle of love and pained regret that he has been experiencing, and that his memory of the pond scene and his feelings about love keep on repeating in his head; perhaps Hardy feels somewhat detain within his own mind with no escape.\r\nHardy’s description of the natural world at the end of the poem, ‘Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tr ee,/And a pond edged with grayish leaves.’ is very coarse and mostly monosyballic symbolising blankness, as if Hardy’s feelings are numb. This contrasts greatly with the much more affective and descriptive language he used at the beginning to depict the same objects. This change suggests that Hardy has changed his view about love to a more cynical one, feeling as if love ‘deceives’ and tricks him. Hardy uses this paradox to combine the feeling of melancholia and the notion of a passionless relationship, emphasising the point that what passion there at one time was between Hardy and his lover is there no longer.\r\n'