The poem explores the complex nature of grief while also illustrating how losing someone dear can feel at once sad and downright strange.

The poem's four stanzas mirror the stages of grief Hardy experienced after Emma's death in 1912. The first three quatrains maintain longer, more controlled ...

17 мая 2023 г. · “The Voice” is written from the perspective of a man who yearns for a woman who is no longer in his life.

The poem opens with an exclamation, 'how you call to me, call to me.' The second verse initiates a series of questions: 'Can it be you that I hear?' and in the ...

Major Themes in “The Voice”: Love, grief, and memories are the major themes found in the poem. The sad speaker laments over the loss of his beloved. His love ...

2 июн. 2016 г. · In short, this poem is full of ironies and the poet's emotions about the love for the woman are complex. He remembers beautiful memories of ...

Hardy addresses his first wife, who had recently died when he wrote the poem, claiming he can hear her voice telling him that she is not the woman she once was.

21 апр. 2020 г. · The Voice is one of eighteen poems written in a feverish haze of grief, guilt and regret in the space of only a few months after she passed away.

23 февр. 2016 г. · The poem is primarily about an illusion of a voice heard by Thomas Hardy of someone who he loved who had passed,which can now be assumed is his ...

The poem is narrated by an unnamed speaker and is addressed to the spirit of his dead wife. It is a poem of grief, which includes some elements of mysticism.