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I need not go
Through sleet and snow
To where I know
She waits for me;
She will wait me there
Till I find it fair,
And have time to spare
From company.
When I've overgot
The world somewhat,
When things cost not
Such stress and strain,
Is soon enough
By cypress sough
To tell my Love
I am come again.
And if some day,
When none cries nay,
I still delay
To seek her side,
(Though ample measure
Of fitting leisure
Await my pleasure)
She will not chide.
What--not upbraid me
That I delayed me,
Nor ask what stayed me
So long? Ah, no! -
New cares may claim me,
New loves inflame me,
She will not blame me,
But suffer it so.
Thomas Hardy
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Saturday, January 04, 2003 |
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011 |
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Ossai Micheal (2/23/2011 10:54:00 PM)
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Too lovely. The poem is all abount a man that trust is lover to the call. Not minding the distance he still believe is love will wait. Unlike the love we have these days we hardly trust each other. But in these poem the love was exagerated.
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Joey Valenzuela (2/23/2010 8:02:00 PM)
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yeah this is likely a waiting love....
in the first stanza, it is presented that the narrator's sure that she waits for him...and though they're far he's sure he's still inlove with her....
in the second stanza, the arrangement of words, according to the international english, is not quite bearable (although it's a poetic license) but the meaning is clear...
the narrator tried to say that when she got tired of waiting him, he could present himself to her tell her he still love her, so that she may not think he'd forgotten her.
third stanza is like presenting the power of the woman to chide him if he'd forgotten to visit her (though the truth is he missed her so)
it's like the narrator is saying that he may get tired of waiting, or maybe they both could go tired of waiting and it's not their fault they can't blame themselves...maybe because they aggreed to wait each other, and they knew that their feelings may change along the way...
hehehehe...that's my interpretation...hope i made sense...
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Terence George Craddock (2/23/2010 10:13:00 AM)
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Beautiful simple flowing lines, apparently he is more casual in the relationship than she, however a hint of her displeasure if he takes her for granted, and his undecided feelings; give the future of the relationship an inquisitive contemplative open ending, the reader can wander in at will.
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Mariah Burns (2/23/2010 8:45:00 AM)
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This is beautiful.
it inspires me to write.
i love it.....!
Good alliteration to
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Elliot Ahiator (2/23/2010 8:07:00 AM)
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regrettable beautiful, depicts hidden emotions in both lovers
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JOSEPH POEWHIT (2/23/2010 6:52:00 AM)
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Most women want attention from their lover. If cares take the place, you know? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Kevin Straw (2/23/2010 6:00:00 AM)
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On the face of it an unpleasant poem. But it should be remembered that the person in the poem is not Hardy himself. The power of the poet is in his imaginative reach. He is able to reflect experiences he himself has not had. We do not think Shakespeare's amazing creation of a young girl in love in Romeo and Juliet is autobiographical. To infer autobiography from a poem is to mistake the nature of poetry. In this poem Hardy paints a picture of a type of man, not of himself.
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Ramesh T A (2/23/2010 1:39:00 AM)
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The confidence about his love is boldly revealed in this poem! Rather the overconfidence he has makes us laugh at Hardy! This is called cocksure conviction! But fate has got its own design which he will know later!
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Indira Renganathan (2/23/2010 12:16:00 AM)
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The language sounds funny to me...yet it is interesting...the lovers both seem to know well of each other...so the poet says about her waiting lover...
'She will not blame me,
But suffer it so...' a lovely poem
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Edith Oram (2/23/2008 3:45:00 AM)
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I love this poem. The style is light but a depth of feeling lies beneath. Edith Oram
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