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Jun 15, 2013
Essays / "Are You Digging My Grave ?"/ Thomas Hardy - Need help with this paper [3]
Thomas Hardy was born in England in 1840 . He was well known for his pushlished works in Wessex. He was also an talented poet. Hardy died in 1928. He was the oldest of his siblings. He had one brother and two sisters. He was named after his father who was as named Thomas Hardy . Hardy wrote mostly about poems that deal witht the theme of disappoionment in love and life and the stuggle against coldness to human suffering. Thomas has wrote many different poems.
"Are You Digging My Grave ?" Is about the a women who thinks people whom she impacted while she was a live. Not one of them, not her lover, family or even her dog, give her a second thought anymore after she died. Once we are dead , we are gone and forgotten. This poem is an example of Dark humor as the end leaves you guilty and self centered. This poem was not meant to be romantic. This is a cynical poem that is pretty straight forward that when yo die, our at a standstill while the world just keeps going with out you. There is a lot of irony that draws in with this poem. The irony is that the speaker, address all the people she belives is sad about her death and would be digging on her grave . she belives that someone her she loves is digging on her grave but really infact it is her dog . Her dog has mentioned in the bottom line of the poem that he was really just burring his bone.
Thomas Hardy was born in England in 1840 . He was well known for his pushlished works in Wessex. He was also an talented poet. Hardy died in 1928. He was the oldest of his siblings. He had one brother and two sisters. He was named after his father who was as named Thomas Hardy . Hardy wrote mostly about poems that deal witht the theme of disappoionment in love and life and the stuggle against coldness to human suffering. Thomas has wrote many different poems.
"Are You Digging My Grave ?" Is about the a women who thinks people whom she impacted while she was a live. Not one of them, not her lover, family or even her dog, give her a second thought anymore after she died. Once we are dead , we are gone and forgotten. This poem is an example of Dark humor as the end leaves you guilty and self centered. This poem was not meant to be romantic. This is a cynical poem that is pretty straight forward that when yo die, our at a standstill while the world just keeps going with out you. There is a lot of irony that draws in with this poem. The irony is that the speaker, address all the people she belives is sad about her death and would be digging on her grave . she belives that someone her she loves is digging on her grave but really infact it is her dog . Her dog has mentioned in the bottom line of the poem that he was really just burring his bone.