Themes to consider in Selected Poems from

Thomas Hardy

Emotional Failure:
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Personal Loss/Failure:

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Death:
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Theme
A central idea or ideas
that the writer explores
throughout the text.
(Croft and Cross 1997:260)

God (Absence of):

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Alienation:

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Nature:
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The effect(s) of Experience:

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