Loss: An Analysis Of Absence From The Point Of Bronte And Hardy

Dealing with Loss

An Analysis of Absence from the Point of Bronte and Hardy Dealing with loss is just a part of life; it’s something that we all have to go through in one way or another. There are many types of loss: loss of a family member, loss of time, loss of a race or sporting event, loss of identity, or one of the many other types of loss. Different types of loss though, come with different types of coping. Some people have a much more difficult time dealing with it than others. This is something heavily visited by certain late 19th Century authors, particularly Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. In Bronte’s Remembrance and Hardy’s Thrush and Digging; the authors elaborate or several certain ways of dealing with loss. First, in Bronte’s Remembrance she talks about dealing with loss by letting go. In some ways, people need to let go. It’s important to move on from a loss. In lines 13-14 of Remembrance, “Sweet love of youth, forgive if I forget thee while the worlds tide is bearing me along”. She feels terrible about it. It has been 15 years and shows that eventually it is best to just let go of people. Letting go, yet remembering a loss is one of the better and

At the point in time where he wrote this poem it was the eve of the turn of the century. This turn of the century marked the end of a terrible era, yet Hardy doesn’t know whether life will become better or whether life will remain on a sour note. It seems to him like the loss of the previous years is part of a never ending gloom. The world around him makes him think the world will never be a better place. Yet something helps him see a bright light in a dark room. He hears and sees a bird that is singing a hopeful song, one that makes him think that if the bird can sing in the dark world that there truly is hope for the world. In lines 30-33 Hardy says, “His happy good-night air some blessed hope, whereof he knew and I was