Dorchester, Dorset Essays

“Of all the enigmas which ever confronted a girl there can have been seldom one like that which followed Henchard’s announcement of himself to Elizabeth as her father.” The preceding excerpt from Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge follows Elizabeth Jane, a waitress in the town’s local tavern, and her discovery and initial shock of learning that her estranged father is Michael Henchard, the now wealthy mayor of a small town. This story illustrates examples of formal diction with levels of abstraction

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battleships in the English Channel, the noise of which would have carried far inland and been especially noticeable by residents of coastal counties such as Dorset, where Portland Harbour, a major naval base at the time, is situated. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born and spent most of his life in Dorset and was living at Max Gate, Dorchester, in April 1914 when he wrote "Channel Firing". The poem was a late candidate for his 1914 collection "Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries". It is one

Man He Killed” and within the poem, the death of a man is just an altercation of war. “Thomas Hardy was born in the village of Higher Bockhampton, in Dorset, England, where he continued to spend considerable time throughout his life” (Krueger). “Between 1865 and 1867 Hardy wrote many poems, none of which were published. In 1867 he returned to Dorchester and, while continuing to work in architecture, began to write novels in his spare time. Hardy became convinced that if he was to make a living writing

This led us to table 1. This table clearly shows variety of gereric topics addressed. It indicates that some topics, such as daily life, human relationships, animals, and references to the Internet and science, are tackled far more often than others. Other topics such as religion, media, and references to 9GAG seem rather unusual. Using the table as a basis, Wagener observed some important points: (a) the frequency of topics changed considerably depending on the day, which shows the importance of

the lifestyles of Wessex County, particularly the farming practices, technologies, and the relationships farmers and villagers had with the land in England during the 1800s. While Hardy’s Casterbridge is fictional, it is based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. Hardy lived in this area and used many realistic details in his novels. The visit of “a royal personage” referred to in the novel matches the historic trip of Prince Albert to Weymouth in July