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A review by versmonesprit
Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
Feel free to crown me a jerk. I just did not, could not care. Sorry your wife died, mate, but oh well.
Don’t get me wrong, these poems (mostly written from the perspective of the regretful, yearning husband, and sometimes from that of the phantom wife) do have powerful visuals from time to time, but all throughout this little selection I couldn’t help thinking about Poe’s Annabel Lee. Now there’s a moving, tempestuously emotional poem that makes me care, that makes me feel like I too have lost her. Unfortunately, in Hardy’s poems I had a hard time finding the emotions, and they became too repetitive too fast.
I needed more of this
Don’t get me wrong, these poems (mostly written from the perspective of the regretful, yearning husband, and sometimes from that of the phantom wife) do have powerful visuals from time to time, but all throughout this little selection I couldn’t help thinking about Poe’s Annabel Lee. Now there’s a moving, tempestuously emotional poem that makes me care, that makes me feel like I too have lost her. Unfortunately, in Hardy’s poems I had a hard time finding the emotions, and they became too repetitive too fast.
I needed more of this
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea,
And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free -
but obviously I did not get it.
Sorry :(
Sorry :(