Write a critical appreciation of the poem "Hap," paying close attention to its form and language. (maximum 200 words) Due: Mid-day (12noon) Saturday, Oct. 3rd, 2015
Hap was written in the 18 century. The poem speaks to the author's own attitudes and experiences with life, particularly humankind's relationship to a possibly existing god. In paying close attention to its form, the form of Hap presented on paper is organized by three stanzas. In that the octave is split into two stanzas each of four lines and the sestet ( the last six lines of the sonnet) is a stanza on its own. The formation is structured to meet all the requirements of the form of an English sonnet. The fourteen lines are written in an iambic perimeter. "Hap" which was used as a noun until the early in the twentieth century. The word is clipped from the verb "happen". The meaning of the poem's tittle is chance or luck, which was a noun at the poem was written. The language was indeed Old English. Hardy's language of the poem was used in a Combative or Figurative way. Figuratively in the way that the words had more than one possible meanings eg. irie which meant intense anger, doomsters judge, cast a moan eclipse. With the presence of the figurative and rhetorical devices such as Metaphor"hope unblooms", Personification "joy lies slain", Irony,"that thy love's loss is my hate's profiting"; reflected the aspects of Figurative meanings because of the Irony and Colonial culture of the poet. It was able to identify the poet's nationality through the Rhythm of the speech. Rhythm refers to the way a speaker pronounces and the pace of the delivery of Hardy was in making the poetic line memorable where there was stressed syllables"Crass Casualty and unstressed syllables "steeled by the sense.....". In concluding "Hap" is a variant of the Shakespearian Form of the language and form.
The poem Hap by Thomas Hardy is an eighteenth century sonnet. It contains fourteen lines which are written in iambic pentameter. It is compiled with three quatrains which are followed by a rhymed couplet. The poem's title "Hap", which is no longer used but meant "to happen by chance", readily suggests the type of poetic language used. Hardy uses phrases such as "vengeful god"in line 1 and "suffering thing" in line 2 in expressing his anger towards god. These phrases also assist in telling the tone of the poem which is anger. Hardy uses a condescending language register to assist in displaying this anger to readers. Figurative languages such as metaphor, personification, hyperbole and irony are used to convey figurative meanings. Standard syntax is included in the piece and serves to give the poem a lofty tone.
In the poem "Hap", it's use of form and language are being critical appreciated. The use of the form and language and their effectiveness has been commented on. "Hap" by Thomas Hardy, it's form is of an English sonnet. It's fourteen lines are written in iambic perimeter, the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg is complied with, and the three quatrains are followed by a rhymed couplet to conclude the poem. The rhyme scheme, is variant on the Shakespearean form. It is presented as three stanzas in that the traditional octave is split into two stanzas each of four lines and the sestet is a stanza on it's own. In the poem "Hap" the speaker tries to find a language to portray reality as it really is. He tries to see past the personifications (`If but some vengeful god would call to me`), the equivalences (`thy love's loss is my hate's profiting`), and cause-effect categories (`a powerfuller than I/ Had willed and meted me the tears I shed`) of anthropomorphic veiws. The first two stanzas are very formulated in an abab rhyme scheme to contradict the theme of the poem quite nicely by contrasting form versus the random. The ironic persistence in the poem force registers of a ` formal expression of his humanism `. Last and foremost the form of "Hap" is a beautiful literary form and the language is written in a complex language system, the language and specific structure is used to create a imaginative and expressive poem.
The poem “Hap” by Thomas Hardy was written in 1866, but it did not reach the general public until 1898. The poet questions the purpose of god’s existence, he continues by asking the question; is there a god and if so is that god delighted by the suffering of man? The elements of construction used in this poem as well as the effects it helped to bring forth will be clearly discussed. The speaker can be either a male or female because the writer does not use the words “he\she” in any of the stanzas, instead the poem was written in the first person perspective. (Lines 4-5) “That thy love’s lost is my hate’s profiting!...” The title reflects what the poem will mainly be about. “Hap” is defined as “that which happen or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot”. The themes in this poem are pain, sorrow, suffering (stanza 2) “Then I would bear it clench myself, and die...” The poem is a mixture of both the Italian and English sonnet, since the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEFFE and there is a break between the octave and the sestet. The octave can be found in stanzas 1 and 2 while the sestet is the 6 lines of stanza 3 which rhymes “cdecde.” The octave introduced the problem of the love that the poet lost, it expresses the hurt he now feels and presents a situation which causes him more pain. The sound of the poem focuses mainly on the use of assonance, labial, sibilance, full rhyme and part-rhyme. The assonances “sorrow, lost, profit” (stanza 1) and “steeled, eased, meted” (stanza 2) help make the poem flow, without it the poem would be extremely choppy. The labial “myself, me, unmerited” in stanza 2 placed emphasis on the words being used. The sibilance “steeled, sense, shed” (stanza 2) affects the tonal qualities during the reading of the poem and it presents a threating and sometimes creating a hissing effect or a gentle soft sound. The poet uses rhyme “thing, profiting”, “rain, pain” to reveal to the reader the theme, the aspect of life into which the poet is diving. It gives pleasure to the ear, deepen meaning; two or more words together draws attention to them and connects them in the readers mind and strengthen the form. The Lineation of the poem of the poem shows that the poet wanted to make his point as clear as possible in a simple manner. That is the number of lines and stanzas in the poem. The rhythm of the poem is strong while the metre of stanza is that of a trochaic tetrameter, it contains four trochaic feet, and each foot is made up of a stressed and unstressed syllable. The tone helps the reader understand what the poet is feeling. The tone is stanza 1 is that of a strong negative passion, stanza 2; passive and filled with reluctant sorrow, stanza 3; doomed and acceptance. The language of the poem is Old English,. “Hap” by Thomas Hardy is similar to “To God the Father” by Katherine Mansfield, in that they are both speaking about god, Katherine however, questions him in saying that he has been in heaven for far too long and it’s been ages since she believed in him but all she wants now is him. (Lines 23-30) “I want no rose-coloured future… And fall asleep with my hands tangled in your grey beard. Overall all the elements and forms used in the poem “Hap” were effect as they helped the reader understand the poem and helped the poet in emphasizing his points.
The Thomas Hardy 's sonnet 'Hap' written around the 1860's time period. Is a poetic piece in which Hardy expresses his rejection and confusion of life, reality,religion and God. The Old English form of writing the poem gave the poem a form of extra embrasment of the expression of Hardy 's feelings giving us the reader the urge to find out and investigate what is really being expressed. Hardy embraces his feelings about the "supreme being" to whom his questions are directed in various ways ,one if which is the use of literary devices. One of those is the usage of irony found in (stanza 1 and line 4 ,"that thy love's loss my hates profiting," which is ironic in the sense that the poet is contradicting himself with what he believes versus what is suppose to be. Another poetry element that was greatly appreciated was the use of tones. The tone of doomed and acceptance in stanza 3 and so on. The ordinary speech rhythm was used in the poem,the rhythm scheme of the poem is the ABAB CDCD EFEF. The language of the poem is that if s personal one as it is evident in the poem with the use is the pronoun "I" and his questioning were based on his own experiences. As for me personally this poem is a work in which great appreciated in that I can personally relate to Hardy 's questions we all have them and ask the some times. This poetic piece is one of extreme greatness in all it's form written and expressed......
Hardy’s impetus in writing the poem, surely, was to explore and explain the reasons for his own suffering. The poet asks this question explicitly at the beginning of the third stanza: “How arrives it joy lies slain . . .?” The problem is not merely that joy is slain but also that pain is plentiful on his pilgrimage of life. Hardy takes up the question of God’s existence, or, more to the point, the nature of the relationship between God and humanity.
He variously describes himself, either directly or indirectly, as a “suffering thing”; as one whose “sorrow” gives the gods “ecstasy”; as bearing “it” (life, and suffering in life), clenching, and dying; as shedding tears; as possessing “slain” joy and “unbloomed” hope. At the same time, he sees himself encapsulated by omnipotent cosmic forces described as “some vengeful god,” “Powerfuller than I,” “Crass Casualty,” “dicing Time,” and “purblind Doomsters.”
Hardy denies that humans are as flies to wanton boys. He sees his condition as worse: The gods are deriving no pleasure from the pain of humans. If the gods were inflicting, or even permitting, human suffering with some purpose or purposes of their own (even self-indulgence or sadism), then the poet says that he could “bear it, clench [himself], and die.” He can find, however, no evidence that this is the case; the universe is malign through chance and indifference—through “hap”—not...
The poem "Hap" written by Thomas Hardy evokes a feeling of pain and suffering. This poem is structured in fourteen lines in an English sonnets, it is written in iambic pentameter. Hardy use the word "Hap" as the title to bring a significant meaning of coincidence, fortune or luck to convey the poem. However, in stanza one and two of the the poem a feeling of anger arose as Hardy wishes. That god exist but sadly, he doesn't. Hardy believe that his give misfortune so that he can laugh at us, he believes that wanted him to suffer. At the end of the poem Hardy finish off the poem by realizing that his anger towards god would be unjustified. He recognize that god does not bring forh sadness but also happiness and hope. He answers his philosophical question by realizing that happiness and sadness is not given by the supreme being based on ones action but based on chance.
Hap was written in the 18 century. The poem speaks to the author's own attitudes and experiences with life, particularly humankind's relationship to a possibly existing god. In paying close attention to its form, the form of Hap presented on paper is organized by three stanzas. In that the octave is split into two stanzas each of four lines and the sestet ( the last six lines of the sonnet) is a stanza on its own. The formation is structured to meet all the requirements of the form of an English sonnet. The fourteen lines are written in an iambic perimeter. "Hap" which was used as a noun until the early in the twentieth century. The word is clipped from the verb "happen". The meaning of the poem's tittle is chance or luck, which was a noun at the poem was written. The language was indeed Old English. Hardy's language of the poem was used in a Combative or Figurative way. Figuratively in the way that the words had more than one possible meanings eg. irie which meant intense anger, doomsters judge, cast a moan eclipse. With the presence of the figurative and rhetorical devices such as Metaphor"hope unblooms", Personification "joy lies slain", Irony,"that thy love's loss is my hate's profiting"; reflected the aspects of Figurative meanings because of the Irony and Colonial culture of the poet. It was able to identify the poet's nationality through the Rhythm of the speech. Rhythm refers to the way a speaker pronounces and the pace of the delivery of Hardy was in making the poetic line memorable where there was stressed syllables"Crass Casualty and unstressed syllables "steeled by the sense.....". In concluding "Hap" is a variant of the Shakespearian Form of the language and form.
ReplyDeleteThe poem Hap by Thomas Hardy is an eighteenth century sonnet. It contains fourteen lines which are written in iambic pentameter. It is compiled with three quatrains which are followed by a rhymed couplet. The poem's title "Hap", which is no longer used but meant "to happen by chance", readily suggests the type of poetic language used. Hardy uses phrases such as "vengeful god"in line 1 and "suffering thing" in line 2 in expressing his anger towards god. These phrases also assist in telling the tone of the poem which is anger. Hardy uses a condescending language register to assist in displaying this anger to readers. Figurative languages such as metaphor, personification, hyperbole and irony are used to convey figurative meanings. Standard syntax is included in the piece and serves to give the poem a lofty tone.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem "Hap", it's use of form and language are being critical appreciated. The use of the form and language and their effectiveness has been commented on. "Hap" by Thomas Hardy, it's form is of an English sonnet. It's fourteen lines are written in iambic perimeter, the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg is complied with, and the three quatrains are followed by a rhymed couplet to conclude the poem. The rhyme scheme, is variant on the Shakespearean form. It is presented as three stanzas in that the traditional octave is split into two stanzas each of four lines and the sestet is a stanza on it's own.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem "Hap" the speaker tries to find a language to portray reality as it really is. He tries to see past the personifications (`If but some vengeful god would call to me`), the equivalences (`thy love's loss is my hate's profiting`), and cause-effect categories (`a powerfuller than I/ Had willed and meted me the tears I shed`) of anthropomorphic veiws. The first two stanzas are very formulated in an abab rhyme scheme to contradict the theme of the poem quite nicely by contrasting form versus the random. The ironic persistence in the poem force registers of a ` formal expression of his humanism `. Last and foremost the form of "Hap" is a beautiful literary form and the language is written in a complex language system, the language and specific structure is used to create a imaginative and expressive poem.
The poem “Hap” by Thomas Hardy was written in 1866, but it did not reach the general public until 1898. The poet questions the purpose of god’s existence, he continues by asking the question; is there a god and if so is that god delighted by the suffering of man? The elements of construction used in this poem as well as the effects it helped to bring forth will be clearly discussed.
ReplyDeleteThe speaker can be either a male or female because the writer does not use the words “he\she” in any of the stanzas, instead the poem was written in the first person perspective. (Lines 4-5) “That thy love’s lost is my hate’s profiting!...”
The title reflects what the poem will mainly be about. “Hap” is defined as “that which happen or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot”. The themes in this poem are pain, sorrow, suffering (stanza 2) “Then I would bear it clench myself, and die...”
The poem is a mixture of both the Italian and English sonnet, since the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEFFE and there is a break between the octave and the sestet. The octave can be found in stanzas 1 and 2 while the sestet is the 6 lines of stanza 3 which rhymes “cdecde.” The octave introduced the problem of the love that the poet lost, it expresses the hurt he now feels and presents a situation which causes him more pain.
The sound of the poem focuses mainly on the use of assonance, labial, sibilance, full rhyme and part-rhyme. The assonances “sorrow, lost, profit” (stanza 1) and “steeled, eased, meted” (stanza 2) help make the poem flow, without it the poem would be extremely choppy. The labial “myself, me, unmerited” in stanza 2 placed emphasis on the words being used. The sibilance “steeled, sense, shed” (stanza 2) affects the tonal qualities during the reading of the poem and it presents a threating and sometimes creating a hissing effect or a gentle soft sound. The poet uses rhyme “thing, profiting”, “rain, pain” to reveal to the reader the theme, the aspect of life into which the poet is diving. It gives pleasure to the ear, deepen meaning; two or more words together draws attention to them and connects them in the readers mind and strengthen the form.
The Lineation of the poem of the poem shows that the poet wanted to make his point as clear as possible in a simple manner. That is the number of lines and stanzas in the poem. The rhythm of the poem is strong while the metre of stanza is that of a trochaic tetrameter, it contains four trochaic feet, and each foot is made up of a stressed and unstressed syllable.
The tone helps the reader understand what the poet is feeling. The tone is stanza 1 is that of a strong negative passion, stanza 2; passive and filled with reluctant sorrow, stanza 3; doomed and acceptance. The language of the poem is Old English,.
“Hap” by Thomas Hardy is similar to “To God the Father” by Katherine Mansfield, in that they are both speaking about god, Katherine however, questions him in saying that he has been in heaven for far too long and it’s been ages since she believed in him but all she wants now is him. (Lines 23-30) “I want no rose-coloured future… And fall asleep with my hands tangled in your grey beard.
Overall all the elements and forms used in the poem “Hap” were effect as they helped the reader understand the poem and helped the poet in emphasizing his points.
The Thomas Hardy 's sonnet 'Hap' written around the 1860's time period. Is a poetic piece in which Hardy expresses his rejection and confusion of life, reality,religion and God. The Old English form of writing the poem gave the poem a form of extra embrasment of the expression of Hardy 's feelings giving us the reader the urge to find out and investigate what is really being expressed. Hardy embraces his feelings about the "supreme being" to whom his questions are directed in various ways ,one if which is the use of literary devices. One of those is the usage of irony found in (stanza 1 and line 4 ,"that thy love's loss my hates profiting," which is ironic in the sense that the poet is contradicting himself with what he believes versus what is suppose to be. Another poetry element that was greatly appreciated was the use of tones. The tone of doomed and acceptance in stanza 3 and so on. The ordinary speech rhythm was used in the poem,the rhythm scheme of the poem is the ABAB CDCD EFEF. The language of the poem is that if s personal one as it is evident in the poem with the use is the pronoun "I" and his questioning were based on his own experiences. As for me personally this poem is a work in which great appreciated in that I can personally relate to Hardy 's questions we all have them and ask the some times. This poetic piece is one of extreme greatness in all it's form written and expressed......
ReplyDeleteHardy’s impetus in writing the poem, surely, was to explore and explain the reasons for his own suffering. The poet asks this question explicitly at the beginning of the third stanza: “How arrives it joy lies slain . . .?” The problem is not merely that joy is slain but also that pain is plentiful on his pilgrimage of life. Hardy takes up the question of God’s existence, or, more to the point, the nature of the relationship between God and humanity.
ReplyDeleteHe variously describes himself, either directly or indirectly, as a “suffering thing”; as one whose “sorrow” gives the gods “ecstasy”; as bearing “it” (life, and suffering in life), clenching, and dying; as shedding tears; as possessing “slain” joy and “unbloomed” hope. At the same time, he sees himself encapsulated by omnipotent cosmic forces described as “some vengeful god,” “Powerfuller than I,” “Crass Casualty,” “dicing Time,” and “purblind Doomsters.”
Hardy denies that humans are as flies to wanton boys. He sees his condition as worse: The gods are deriving no pleasure from the pain of humans. If the gods were inflicting, or even permitting, human suffering with some purpose or purposes of their own (even self-indulgence or sadism), then the poet says that he could “bear it, clench [himself], and die.” He can find, however, no evidence that this is the case; the universe is malign through chance and indifference—through “hap”—not...
The poem "Hap" written by Thomas Hardy evokes a feeling of pain and suffering. This poem is structured in fourteen lines in an English sonnets, it is written in iambic pentameter. Hardy use the word "Hap" as the title to bring a significant meaning of coincidence, fortune or luck to convey the poem.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in stanza one and two of the the poem a feeling of anger arose as Hardy wishes. That god exist but sadly, he doesn't. Hardy believe that his give misfortune so that he can laugh at us, he believes that wanted him to suffer.
At the end of the poem Hardy finish off the poem by realizing that his anger towards god would be unjustified. He recognize that god does not bring forh sadness but also happiness and hope. He answers his philosophical question by realizing that happiness and sadness is not given by the supreme being based on ones action but based on chance.