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Thomas Hardy's poem explores the bittersweet nature of life through a conversation with the abstract entity 'World', highlighting the contrast between the unchanging nature of the world and the narrator's personal growth. The poem employs a slow rhyme and nostalgic imagery to evoke memories of childhood and the complexities of human emotions towards the narrator. Ultimately, Hardy expresses gratitude towards 'World' for its lessons on life's unfairness, creating a memorable reflection on past experiences.

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Memorable

Thomas Hardy's poem explores the bittersweet nature of life through a conversation with the abstract entity 'World', highlighting the contrast between the unchanging nature of the world and the narrator's personal growth. The poem employs a slow rhyme and nostalgic imagery to evoke memories of childhood and the complexities of human emotions towards the narrator. Ultimately, Hardy expresses gratitude towards 'World' for its lessons on life's unfairness, creating a memorable reflection on past experiences.

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- Memorable: slow rhyme, relate to nature, memorable conclusion

The writer, Thomas Hardy, delivers his uttermost lesson in life proved by the
conversation with entity “World”. By employing time and story-telling
method, he makes poem memorable concisely describing his experience with
“World” and the bittersweet nature of life along with events in life.
Beginning the poem, Thomas introduces his meeting with “World” which
creates an irony causing a respective curiosity for readers because people
simply cannot talk to “World” or “life” – abstract existence. This is showed by
the quote “Well, World, you have kept faith with me// Kept faith with me;” as
if showing he and “World” were friends with strong belief to each other, as
represented by the repetition of “Kept faith with me” creating a rhyme of
“me” to manage the slow beat of the poem making it memorable and
nostalgic. However, it further suggests two meanings: “World” will never
change – as its principle of existence – and the contrast to the writer who has
changed in his age, his personality, etc. Although this forms an apparent
disappointment because it never really helped the narrator – its friend,
Thomas was still calm as interpreted in the stories about his childhood “Since
as a child I used to lie// Upon the lease and watch the sky”. Continuing on
another rhyme with the sound “i”, the writer now links nature to his
conversation imagining an idyllic scene as if a person is comfortably thinking
about their life on the meadow. Collaborating with the reference to “child”
time, the writer leads the poem to be more nostalgic and memorable
embracing moments of life in a moment even. Nevertheless, this fact creates
a contrast suggesting that he at least realise the nature of life since being a
child distinguishing himself from other kids and possibly exposes some
triumphant feelings.
Continuing the talk with the mysterious voice, the writer slowly tells his life
along with facts he inferred. This is highlighted strikingly through the lines
“Many have loved me desperately,// Many with smooth serenity,// While some
have shown contempt of me” pointing different emotions of other people
towards him – from being positive to negative. Thus, it unfortunately suggests
a bittersweet rules of life that people’s emotions based on the things they
acquired from one (which is the narrator). It introduces a memorable event
but disappointed in the writer’s long life. As a result, the writer feels grateful
to his friend “World” for the intellectual warning about these events by two
thankful lines “Wise warning for your credit’s sake!” and “And hence could
stem such strain and ache”. The writer confesses his regard to the “World”
but believe “World”, as any other people, just done it for there own benefits
due to the obvious nature of life but also hints that Thomas probably strike
out the rule of life from his own experience. He, therefore, reveals his reasons
for this appreciation to “World” because it helped him from “strain” and
“ache” as a result from his understandings to life’s unfairness contributing to
his tolerance against adversities. Thus, by confessing his thankfulness, the
narrator emits more nostalgic and memorable feelings to his poem proving
that he is always care about the past.
In conclusion, Thomas Hardy successfully creates feelings of memorable and
nostalgic in his poem by telling events in his past life. This early
contemplation both causes the readers to empathize and understand the
nature of life he mentions more easily.

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