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- Thomas Hardy's "Hap" laments the fact that life is governed by chance ("happenstance"). The poem's downtrodden speaker argues that even a cruel god would, in a way, be preferable to random bad luck. Hardy wrote "Hap" in 1866 and later included it in his debut poetry collection, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, in 1898.
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Thomas Hardy's "Hap" laments the fact that life is governed by chance ("happenstance"). The poem's downtrodden speaker argues that even a cruel god would, in a way, be preferable to random bad luck. Hardy wrote "Hap" in 1866 and later included it in his debut poetry collection, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, in 1898.
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Sep 2, 2016 · Hardy’s poem of chance - analysed by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Hap is one of Thomas Hardy’s earliest great poems, composed in the 1860s while he was still a young man in his twenties. Its theme is one that would return again and again in both Hardy’s poetry and in his fiction: the seeming randomness of…
Thomas Hardy has structured “Hap” to meet all the requirements of the form of an English sonnet: Its fourteen lines are written in iambic pentameter, the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg is...
blisses - intense happiness; pilgrimage - life’s journey. ‘Hap’ is one of Hardy’s earliest poem, written in 1866. It was a topic he was still exploring sixty years later in ‘He Never Expected Much’. Hap means chance, and Hardy is searching for an explanation of the chances that bring humans such suffering in life.
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Analysis. Discussion of themes and motifs in Thomas Hardy's Hap. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of Hap so you can excel on your essay or test.
May 13, 2011 · An analysis of the Hap poem by Thomas Hardy including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
Thomas Hardy [1] If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!” Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire [2] unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
