Hardy -

Hardy's poems reveal a morbid fascination with death, write about this veiw.

Hardy illustrates a clear understanding of death throughout his poems. Personally i dont find that the word morbid is the right word to use. I do not feel that he shows a 'Morbid fascination' with death it appears to be much rather a deep knowledge in the subject having experienced death and loss in his life. My understanding of the word 'Morbid' is an unhealthy thing, i dont think that hardy illustrates anything unhealthy throughout his peoms, i feel death is a natural thing and people greive for loved ones when they have past. Hardy being a great poet has obviously taken this subject of which he has great experience in and used it to benifit his poetry. Also naturally he is experiencing the 5 floors of greiving and he does show this in his poetry. True, he does talk about death alot in his poetry and does express some curiousity in the subject but i dont fell that it is an unhealthy interest based on my previous points. In a couple of his poems he talks about death in a beatiful sort of way, but then on the other hand, in others he talks about it being a very negative thing. I feel that hardy's poems represent many different sides to death and its effects. Death seems to effect many people in different ways but hardy's representation of the word death illustrates these differences in his poetry. If hardy was to talk consistantly about how he loves death ect, then i would be willing to accept the morbidness of his chosen subject they arent however like this. They simply pull us in the direction of realiseing that the poems are based around the subject matter of death, then tell a story. Therefore i feel Hardy is simply writing about his experiences and things that come natural to him, much like if you were to write a series of novels on a character of a lady, would that then mean that you have a 'morbid fascination' with women?