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Neutral Tones -
Thomas Hardy
- "That winter day"
(pathetic fallacy)
- Weather reflects they are emotionally
cold towards each other
- Weather reflects they are emotionally
cold towards each other
- "Chidden of God"
- Narrator sees everything in
a negative way
- Narrator sees everything in
a negative way
- "ash"
- Their relationship has burnt out
- Their relationship has burnt out
- "riddles...played...lost"
(game imagery)
- As their relationship is not
fun but tedious and lost
- As their relationship is not
fun but tedious and lost
- "smile...deadest"
(oxymoron)
- Emphasises her lack of feeling towards him
- Emphasises her lack of feeling towards him
- "ominous bird a-wing"
(imagery of a bird flying away)
- Suggests the end of their relationship
- Suggests the end of their relationship
- "love deceives"
- A pessimistic generalisation that
all love is deceptive
- A pessimistic generalisation that
all love is deceptive
- "God-curst"
- Stronger than 'chidden'
- Suggests that the
narrator has become
more bitter over time
- Suggests that the
narrator has become
more bitter over time
- Stronger than 'chidden'
- "And a pond"
- Begins and ends with the pond
- Suggests how the memory of
that day still affects him
- Suggests how the memory of
that day still affects him
- Begins and ends with the pond
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