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"How Great My Grief" (Triolet)
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How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!
- Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Nor memory shaped old times anew,
Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee?
Thomas Hardy
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Michael Harmon
(6/13/2009 5:00:00 PM) |
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Michael Pruchnicki
(6/13/2009 4:48:00 PM) |
Does no one except me and Straw recognize a 'triolet'? It's not the reality of life, as Hardy indicates by naming the French verse form he's using - eight lines, the first two being repeated as the last two lines and the fourth recurring also as the fourth line. The poem is an exercise in prosody, don't you see? In fact, it's kind of a tease, the exaggeration implied in 'How Great My Grief'! The poem is not negative in the modern sense at all. Why don't some of you out there pick up a text on poetry once in a while and spare us your gaseous comments? Please do!
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Lynn Glover
(6/13/2009 8:58:00 AM) |
Hardy is expressing a negative attitude simply because grief can only be negative.
This is truly a great poem.
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Kevin Straw
(6/13/2009 4:02:00 AM) |
Hardy is not promoting a negative attitude - he is simply stating his feelings. There are people we met who cause us great grief and little joy - that is a fact of life.
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Bonnie Cote
(6/13/2008 5:13:00 PM) |
This promotes a negative attitude. It is an individual's burden to bear responsibility for their own joy and grief.
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