Analyzing elements of poetic style is generally accepted as one method of exploring a poet?s ideas and beliefs. How someone perceives the world is revealed in the way they speak. A poet?s attitudes toward what poetry can and should be attempting to communicate are exhibited in style. In other words, the voice, use of images and figurative language determines how a poem is read and reveals what is being said. I have selected …showed first 75 words of 1581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1581 total…musical instruments can be repaired; and hard and dry seeds can sprout. These implied ideas prepare the speaker, and the readers, to accept the poem?s outcome. The speaker in the poem is taking a look at the worst. In this poem, Hardy shows one imperfect human response through the voice of the speaker. In the midst of despair, the speaker is capable of suspending conviction and reacting with joy to the thought of possibility.