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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…
Hap. By Thomas Hardy. 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 unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I.
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...
This poem is in the public domain. Thomas Hardy, whose books include Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure , was one of the most influential novelists and poets of England’s Victorian era.
“Hap” was written by Hardy in 1866, but was not published until 1898, in Hardy’s first poetry collection, “Wessex Poems.” The poem is a sonnet in iambic pentameter lines, rhyming ABAB CDCD...
Dec 27, 2022 · “Hap” is a poem by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) that he wrote in 1866, while working as a trainee architect, and for which he could not find a publisher.
