In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'. By Thomas Hardy. Share. I. Only a man harrowing clods. In a slow silent walk. With an old horse that stumbles and nods.

This poem was written in 1915 and published in the Saturday Review, in January 1916 (the middle of the First World War). The title of the poem is a quotation ...

'In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' is Hardy's elegy on the First World War, written in 1915. He takes his title from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah in the ...

This poem was written in 1915 by the seventy-five year old poet and was published in Saturday Review before being included in his 1917 volume, Moments of Vision ...

20 июл. 2010 г. · The poem is about a man who is farming and he sees a couple walking past.The poem is used to projet the feeling that 'love will last' and that ...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wrote 'In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”' in 1915 when the First World War was raging, and the poem was published in January 1916 in ...

This poem contains a feeling that moved me in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war, when I chanced to be looking at such an agricultural incident in Cornwall.

In Time Of "The Breaking Of Nations"[1]. I Only a man harrowing clods. In a slow silent walk. With an old horse that stumbles and nods

The poem itself is a series of comparisons between what Hardy considers the parts of country life to live on forever, never to be forgotten and the First World ...

Hardy penned these lines in 1915 amidst the havoc of World War I, and it was published a year prior to the war's end.