How Does Hardy Use Voice To Tell Story In Haunter

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‘How does Hardy use voices to tell the story in The Going and The Haunter?’ The Going and The Haunter by Thomas Hardy were all written after the death of Hardy's wife Emma. During the final years of their marriage, they never spoke to one another and had a non-existent relationship. After the death of Emma, Hardy regretted not speaking or acknowledging their relationship all he longed was Emma to be back in his arms, so many of his poems after her death speak about loss and misery. The Haunter shows the speaker conscious of his own emotional failure while she was alive, when he wasn’t speaking the words of love or wanting to do things together with her. And now we have a complex re-seeing of himself, missing her deeply, and wishing she were with him, and speaking to her remembered presence, a seeing presented with a novelistic firmness—he’s wandering restlessly, talking to her, revisiting places where they had been together. It’s a kind of reverse love poem, in contrast to the far more common pattern of a male speaker swearing his own undying love and accusing the lover of fickleness Imaginatively, and most pitifully, Hardy writes this mournful and moving poem from the point of view of Emma. It is written in the first person, with her as the imaginary narrator. It is almost as if, in putting these words in the mouth of Emma (who, in the poem, sees Hardy as oblivious of her presence) Hardy is trying to reassure himself that she forgives him and continues to love him. Hardy uses the words “sets him wandering, I too alertly, go.” This shows that she follows Hardy where ever he goes. Hardy writes this to make him cope with the misery of being so bitter to her when she was alive and so he writes in her voice forgiving him. “When I could answer he did not them” this is a reflection of the bad times between Emma and Hardy. It is also irony that when Emma was alive
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