MELANCHOLIA AND PESSIMISM IN SOME OF THOMAS HARDY’S POEMS

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.