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POETRY“ A BROKEN APPOINTMENT “

By

THOMAS HARDY

I. THE BIBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS HARDY

Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, on June 2, 1840, where his father worked as a master mason and builder. From his father he gained an appreciation of music, and from his mother an appetite for learning and the delights of the countryside about his rural home. Hardy was frail as a child, and did not start at the village school until he was eight years old. One year later he transferred to a new school in the county town of Dorchester.

At the age of 16 Hardy helped his father with the architectural drawings for a restoration of Woods ford Castle. The owner, architect James Hicks, was impressed by the younger Hardy's work, and took him on as an apprentice.

Hardy later moved to London to work for prominent architect Arthur Blomfield. He began writing, but his poems were rejected by a number of publishers. Although he enjoyed life in London, Hardy's health was poor, and he was forced to return to Dorset.

In 1870 Hardy was sent to plan a church restoration at St. Juliot in Cornwall. There he met Emma Gifford, sister-in-law of the vicar of St.Juliot. She encouraged him in his writing, and they were married in 1874.

Hardy published his first novel, Desperate Remedies in 1871, to universal disinterest. However, the following year Under the Greenwood Tree brought Hardy popular acclaim for the first time. As with most of his fictional works, Greenwood Tree incorporated real places around Dorset into the plot, including the village school of Higher Bockhampton that Hardy had first attended as a child.

The success of Greenwood Tree brought Hardy a commission to write a serialized novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, for Tinsley's Magazine. Once more Hardy drew upon real life, and the novel mirrors his own courtship of Emma.

Hardy followed this with Far From the Madding Crowd , set in Puddle town (renamed Weather by), near his birthplace. This novel finally netted Hardy the success that enabled him to give up his architectural practice and concentrate solely on writing. The Hardy’s lived in London for a short time, then in Yeovil, then in Sturminster Newton (Stourcastle), which Hardy described as "idyllic". It was at Sturminster Newton that Hardy penned Return of the Native , one of his most enduring works.

 

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Finally the Hardys moved to Dorchester, where Thomas designed their new house, Max Gate, into which they moved in 1885. One year later Hardy published The Mayor of Caster Bridge , followed in 1887 by The Woodlanders and in 1891 by one of his best works, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Tests provoked interest, but his next work, Jude the Obscure (1896), catapulted Hardy into the midst of a storm of controversy. Jude outraged Victoria morality and was seen as an attack upon the institution of marriage. Its publication caused a rift between Thomas and Emma, who feared readers would regard it as describing their own marriage.

Of course, the publicity did no harm to book sales, but readers hid the book behind plain brown paper wrappers, and the Bishop of Wakefield burned his copy! Hardy himself was amused by the reaction his book caused, and he turned away from writing fiction with some disgust.

For the rest of his life Hardy focused on poetry, producing several collections, including Wessex Poems (1898).

Emma Hardy died in November 1912, and was buried in Stinsford churchyard. Thomas was stricken with guilt and remorse, but the result was some of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife of 38 years.

All was not gloom, however, for in 1914 Hardy remarried, to Florence Dugdale, his secretary since 1912. Thomas Hardy died on January 11, 1928 at his house of Max Gate in Dorchester. He had expressed the wish to be buried beside Emma, but his wishes were only partly regarded; his body was interred in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, and only his heart was buried in Emma's grave at Stinsford.

II. A HARDY’S POETRY

A Broken Appointment

1840-1928

By Thomas Hardy

You did not come,

And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.

Yet less for loss of your dear presence there

Than that I thus found lacking in your make

That high compassion which can overbear

Reluctance for pure loving kindness' sake

Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,

You did not come.

You love me not,

And love alone can lend you loyalty;

-I know and knew it. But, unto the store

Of human deeds divine in all but name,

Was it not worth a little hour or more

To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came

To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be

You love me not.

The analysis of ” A Broken Appoinment “ by Thomas Hardy

Introduction

A broken appoinment is one of an old English poetry was created by Thomas

Hardy in 1840-1928. this poem has the feeling in it is so intense and pure that it makes

the emotions beautiful and not sad, but melancholy.

Thomas hardy had a strong disbelief in God and in the beginning of this work we

are led to believe that he is talking about his lack of faith. However, its not until that we

realize he is referring to a woman. he can't get laid, even by someone who's easy. it's sad

like being rejected by a hooker is sad.. A strong scepticism about life even and the

universe which is indifferent about human suffering. Love and pain are intermingled and

there is a strong expression of regret.

A.The Content of “A Broken Appointment” by “Thomas Hardy”

This poem of a broken appointment by Thomas Hardy are talking about disbelief

to a woman who was laid to him. He felt dissapointed about her appoinmnet to meet him.

Love and pain are covered to him until he was regret to her. Coinciding an appoinment is

the important one for people who is believed by someone.

1. Pharaprase of “A Broken Appoinment”

Thomas Hardy hopes the woman would come to meet him. Unfortunately the

woman doesn’t come as Hardy’s hope. He feels that his poor loving kindness was lacking

the lover appoinment. He grieved about her presence. he can't get laid, even by someone

who's easy. it's sad like being rejected by a hooker is sad.. A strong scepticism about life

even and the universe which is indifferent about human suffering. Love and pain are

intermingled and there is a strong expression of regret.

The woman didn’t come to meet him. The time goes on until he felt dissapointed.

Her chance to come is just little chance to presence there. He found lack of her

personality but it was covered by high compassion and those become pure loving and

kindness. They are declared as hopes.

The fact, loyalty can make someone feeling worthing. They (Thomas Hardy and

a Woman) know that but egoistic has made a woman disturborn and arrogan until she did

not considered the love it self. Thomas hardy felt that a woman did not love him

anymore.

2. Moral Message

A broken appoinment is the indicator of disbelief to someone. They know that it

makes one of lovers feel sad and destroyed. Actually, they know that this is kind of lay

and lack of faith.love and pain are parth of love. So, please make the pure love kindness

meaningfull by conciding an appoinment. Even it is just un meaningful dedication.

Conciding an appoinmnet is indicated pure and loyalty of relationship.

The woman has an appoinment toThomas Hardy to come. He was waiting for

long time but she did not come. This statement is stated in first stansa on line one.” You

did not come”. A woman broke an appoinment toThomas Hardy that coused disbelieve

each other.

“Loyalty” is the pure word in love and to lover.Thomas Hardy knew this

meaning. When someone whomwe love break an appoinment and consider it is not to

important. As long as they egoistic about it, it will break the relationship and he love a

woman not. love is not worth anymore.