{"title":"MELANCHOLIA AND PESSIMISM IN SOME OF THOMAS HARDY’S POEMS","authors":"Dr. Norah Hadi Q. Alsaeed","doi":"10.54513/joell.2022.9113","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Hardy is one of the poets of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the twentieth century’s poetics. More than two thirds of his poems dealt with many topics that are not absent, as they fluctuate between frustration, pessimism, loss, pain, death and life. One of the poet's creations, the unidentified speaker used it to express his point of view about life, death, despair, and other beautiful negative topics. These works require a lot of research and study to decipher the cause of the despair and depression that clouded the works of the poet Thomas Hardy. Despite the pessimistic view of life in many of his poems, it is, from the critics' point of view, attractive in its presentation. Where his pessimism is not considered a disease, but rather a point of view worthy of study and analysis. This paper will shed light mainly on the seeds of the poet’s pessimism and how he presents the literary pessimism in a very attractive literary device.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9113","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thomas Hardy is one of the poets of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the twentieth century’s poetics. More than two thirds of his poems dealt with many topics that are not absent, as they fluctuate between frustration, pessimism, loss, pain, death and life. One of the poet's creations, the unidentified speaker used it to express his point of view about life, death, despair, and other beautiful negative topics. These works require a lot of research and study to decipher the cause of the despair and depression that clouded the works of the poet Thomas Hardy. Despite the pessimistic view of life in many of his poems, it is, from the critics' point of view, attractive in its presentation. Where his pessimism is not considered a disease, but rather a point of view worthy of study and analysis. This paper will shed light mainly on the seeds of the poet’s pessimism and how he presents the literary pessimism in a very attractive literary device.
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Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.