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Comparing Channel Firing And Neutral Tones

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Thomas Hardy wrote two poems in which it seems that they don’t have much of a satisfying or fulfilling tone. The poems “Channel Firing” and “Neutral tones” both show a very negative, pessimistic, and most of all a very dark tone throughout both of these poems. The tones of these poems are shown in “Channel Firing” when Thomas Hardy uses lots of death and in “Neutral tones” Thomas Hardy uses lots of dark words and surroundings that show a very neutral and indifferent tone. In both of these poems Thomas Hardy is explaining that although there can be love in humanity there can also be darkness as well.
In “Channel Firing” Thomas Hardy is speaking through the person of a dead body. We start to see this when in the poem he states “That night your
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