Beyond The Last Lamp and During Wind And Rain Essay

Comp be the panaches in which Hardy presents reactions to the disadvantage of loved ones in these two metrical compositionsThomas Hardy uses interpolate and crack conviction as symbols of death and loss in both poems beyond The polish Lamp and During Wind And come down. The title, Beyond The Last Lamp, is a metaphorical way of describing darkness as the lamp signifies light and beyond light lies darkness, a delegacy of pain and disaster. The whole poem revolves around a supposedly grieving, rich couple that the vocalizer observes over time. During Wind And Rain is also a depressing title as the rain suggests anguish and sorrow. The wind suggests progressing time, which could be seen as life, and perhaps death because thats what life ultimately leads up to. A family is the subject of this poem and the speaker, again, tracks their progression over time. It is said that the poem is about the family of Emma Hardy, Thomas Hardys wife. clock represents and is represented by sev eral different objects in both poems. Both poems use stanzas (Beyond The Last Lamp has five stanzas and During Wind And Rain has 4) to develop ideas throughout the poem and shew the passing time. Ah, no the years O and Ah, no the years, the years argon alternately apply as the penultimate wrinkle in distributively stanza of During Wind And Rain. This gives a sense of time moving at a fast pace and it being terrible and just now bringing distress as the line is followed by an image of death. infinite is used in powerful metaphors associated with time, life and death, and it gives the poem its atmosphere. Beyond The Last Lamp is set in a wet, dark lane, setting a heavy and depressing atmosphere. so far the light used in the poem is used to accentuate distress, all(prenominal) countenance as it slowly, as it sadly caught the lamplights yellow glance, held in suspense a misery. There is also a closure association between people and place as the speaker only remembers the lan e through the couple Without those comradesthat lone lane does not subsist. Contrastingly, the atmosphere of During Wind And Rain is lively and happy for the first four lines of the stanza, as it focuses on a garden and family, however, it seems like the cheerful anamnesis ends with an ellipsis and the speaker is almost shaken back to reality.The last line of the stanza shows the place and nature in a dramatic and ghastly way, a clashing chord to the offset printing How the sick leaves reel down in throngs, showing the uncontrollable nature of death and the autumn season. Reel connects with the preceding(prenominal) to lines about music, they sing their dearest songs since as a noun it means an Irish or Scottish folk dance. And the rotten rose is ript from the wall uses head rhyme to dramatize and emphasise the suddenness and horrific nature of death. Place is used to represent time, the stanzas show a progression of seasons summer tree. Place is also used to describe the famil y going to heaven They reposition to a high new house. The garden is also like a metaphor for life as it shows how people try and control it although its uncontrollable they clear the creeping mossmaking the pathways neat.People are the main focal points for both poems whether it is a family or a couple. The speaker writes as an outsider, an observer of these people. The couple in Beyond The Last Lamp are first described as two linked loiterers which is then certain to the suspender seemed lovers in the second stanza, twain, in the third, tragic pair and then comrades. Through this change in description, the speakers change in perspective and opinion of the couples relationship is in sight as they deteriorate from lovers to tragic pair. Although there is deterioration, the pain is present from the beginning of the poem. Absence of happiness is used to create the sad feeling of the poem. snip represents a change for the worse.Their emotions follow a similar pattern and bathroom also be traced from heavy thought in the first stanza, to misery in the second to wild woe in the third. The actual change from happiness to misery isnt shown extensively in the poem, but it is hinted at no longer orbed in loves young rays. However, the familys relationships seem to remain intact throughout During Wind And Rain. The family of During Wind And Rain are shown as happy but unaware of the way time and death can remove everything they are blithely. This almost nave unawareness and the sudden, unexpected loss of happiness is used to emphasise feelings of pain. Time and their growth is shown by the differing description of its members Elders and juniors to Men and maidens. But they all endure in the last stanza Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Time in this case represents death.The speaker has two very different styles in the poems although the perspectives are just as demoralized about life and time. The already pessimistic perspective of the speaker also worsens as the poem progresses.