An Analysis of Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy Essay -- Neutral Tones Es

An Analysis of Neutral T unitys by Thomas Hardy We stood by a puddle that winter day, (1) This line guides a still quietness, with lack of the grounds of life. There is a vast difference in appearance and nominal head around a pond in winter and a pond in the midst of summer. This indicates no leaves, and no visible signs of life. The poet is painting a stark and lifeless scene. And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,(2) This is indicative of the modernist betterment to light as being too harsh and not a positive factor. Chidden means scolded, rebuked, or even blamed. God is not looking favorably upon these deal. And a few leaves lay on the starving sodomite(3) Leaves fall from trees when they ar dead, and the term starving refers to the dying of the ground. They had fallen from an Ash, and were gray,(4) Ash trees are very beautiful hardwood trees, and this line indicates the passing of beauty, and ties in with the dying leaves mentioned in line three. This fir st stanza indicates that something at a time beautiful is dying. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove(5) When l everyplaces who are in love look upon one another, it is usually with a fixed gaze. That old love song, I save have eyes for you helps explain the poets anguish when he realizes his lover is no longer mesmerized while in his company. Over tedious riddles of geezerhood ago (6) is indicative of some unresolved problems between the dickens people in this rime. And some words played between us to and fro (7) seems to indicate small talk and mindless chatter. On which lost the more by our love(8) tells the reader that the poet is unhappy with the chatter and would rather be mouth of the unresolved problems betwee... ...a definite and recognizable pattern. This poem is certainly not a sonnet, either in subject matter, meaning, or format. The rhyme scheme for this poem is that of A B B A, C D D C, E F F E, G H H G. There is teeming continuity in this rhyme scheme t o hold the poem together as a whole through the use of the pattern, however the ever-changing of the actual rhyming words and the fact that, for instance, the A word is moreover repeated one time (as are all of the others) intensifies the poets feelings of loss over the change in his loves desires. Through the rhyming scheme, the poet is conveying the hopelessness of the two of them getting back together and repeating the beautiful love they once shared. Works Cited Damrosch, David, et al., ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature Vol. B. Compact ed. New York Longman - Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. p. 2256