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are about their way of life. “The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy is a great example of how things used to be in the eighteenth century; it shows how quickly things can change through two friends that happen to bump into each other. They start talking about their lives from when they were together and how things have changed. It is interesting because this woman mentions all the things that have changed with her friend. She is now more beautiful, but she is still considered “ruined.” WN Herbert calls it
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy and Cousin Kate by Christina Rosetti The poems that I studied are 'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy and 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rosetti. 'The Ruined Maid' was published in 1901, and 'Cousin Kate' in 1879. These poems were both written in Victorian times, and they both reflect the attitudes towards women at the time. At the beginning of the Victorian period women's powers were extremely limited; they could not control their own money and were very much
The poem “The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy tells the story of two women who run into each other in town and begin discussing the changes one has recently experienced. Melia, since seeing her friend, has become a prostitute and acquired luxuries. Her friend, a country girl, only notices Melia’s extravagance and admires what she has become, despite Melia’s ruin. Utilizing verb tense, ironic tone, and revelatory word choice, Hardy illustrates that Melia’s change in lifestyle does not lead her to abandon
Comparison of To His Coy Mistress and The Ruined Maid 'To His Coy Mistress' is written by Andrew Marvell in the 17th Century. Marvell was one of the so-called metaphysical poets - a term of mild literary abuse coined by Dr. Johnson. 'The Ruined Maid' was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866. It is important to analyse the theme, language, tone, characters and style of both poems in order to compare and contrast them. 'To His Coy Mistress' is a lyric of seduction. It is about a young man who
The Ruined Maid was written in 1866 by Thomas Hardy. This poem is a quatrain, meaning that it has four lines in every stanza. The Ruined Maid has six stanzas and it is structured as a dialogue between two ladies, who used to work together on a farm. In the first five stanzas, the lady who is still working on the farm speaks the first three lines and 'Melia, the “ruined” lady, replies in the fourth line. In the sixth stanza, the farm lady speaks in the first two lines and 'Melia replies in the last
In Thomas Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid” and Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” it is quite clear that both literary works carry a strong, bold statement about the standards of women using different perspectives. Mary Wollstonecraft, an author and advocate of women’s rights born in the mid-1700s, grew up in an era in which women had very limited or no rights at all. Thomas Hardy, a late Victorian novelist and poet, had also grown up in an era in which women had barely anything
Ruined Maid and To His Coy Mistress Both the “Ruined Maid” and “To His Coy Mistress” provide us with disturbing images / pictures of love, sex and relationships as I am about to explain. The “Ruined Maid” was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866, during the time when women didn’t have sex before marriage and they were thrown out of their village for being “ruined”. The public at that point in history had a very strict view of sex and marriage. They thought that women in particular should never
a rich country such as the Congo it is being destroyed by outsiders, as well as by their own people. In her play Ruined, Lynn Nottage touches on some of the issues that are contributing to the Congo’s devastation. Women are being sexually and psychologically abused every day, communities are being destroyed, and the entire Congo its being ravished. Lynn Nottage titled her play Ruined, because her play reflects on all these different factors contributing to the ruin of the Democratic Republic of
A Comparison of Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress and Thomas Hardy's The Ruined Maid In this essay I will look at the two poems, explore what the poems are about, look at the language and images used in them by the writers and then compare the two. "The ruined maid" by Thomas Hardy is a conversation between two women; "Melia", the ruined maid herself and another lady, her friend of whom she used to know when she lived in need. Melia's friend brings up all different points about Melia
Marvell and “The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy. I will look at the style and the tones that are used in both of these poems in order to compare them. “To His Coy Mistress” is one-way argumentative conversation featuring one horny young man trying to convince his reluctant mistress to give up her virginity to him before she gets old. He uses the argument that she needs to have sex now because her youth and beauty will fade as she ages. He thinks they should seize the moment because life is short and
Melinda was my absolute best friend. And I ruined it. We did everything together. Anything either of us did, the other one did the same. From soccer, to pink nail polish, to simply what we ate for lunch. I ruined it. She went through everything with me: thick and thin. I ruined it. I should’ve known. The night of the party. That’s when it all happened. I should’ve went to find her in the woods because I knew she was drunk. I saw her running back to the house like something had happened to her. I
cultures, prostitution is widely present in literature. Two poems come to mind at the mention of prostitution and literature. Jonathan Swift’s poem, “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed”, written in 1734, and Thomas Hardy’s poem written in 1857, “The Ruined Maid”, both tell the tale of a female prostitute, though in strikingly different lights. The impoverished and diseased Corinna from Swift’s poem is nearly the exact
The poems by Hardy, Thomas “The Ruined Maid” (852) and Kennedy, X.J. “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day” (884) although these poems have many things that makes them alike, a more explained detail and examples will help one understand and see how they are more different and alike. In these to poem I find them to have more difference than they are alike. In the first poem The Ruined Maid, this is a conversation between two women about the new and better life one of them has acquired. The main
sleeping under canvases.(DocA) The houses in Bohol are totally ruined and the only thing that might be left is the foundation. In result, of the major destruction the survivors have to sleep in tents on the ground.(DocA) After he first quake ten houses remained and 250 were destroyed. Some houses were still standing, but they were very dangerous.(DocB) The earthquake was very scary for all of the survivors, because their homes were ruined, they didHow would you react if an earthquake caused you to lose
In the poem “The Cry of the Children” elizabeth browning uses themes like children are mentally and physically destroyed from child labor, and factory life leaves children mourning a normal childhood. The author uses literary devices such as diction, imagery and dialogue to portray this. The author uses imagery to show children are physically and mentally destroyed. This quote represents the mental wear and physical damage it puts on the kids “they look Up in their pale and sunken faces. our young
will be good days, and there will be bad days, but what do you do when there are so many more bad days than good, and life is just moving on without you? Everyone is getting on the train that is on the way to success and joy, but I have just been forced off yet again by my depression. It tugs at me, and each word echoes louder and louder. “You’re not meant for this.” But how can life not be meant for me? Surely I must be here for a reason. I aspire to be influential no matter what. One of my greatest
provides the reader with a vision of a wonderful and amazing city in contrast to the ruined city that is now found in its place. In the poem it is seen how a once beautiful city is now nothing more than a ruined city. The narrator of the poem transitions between the once magnificent city and the now ruined city. In Robert Browning’s poem, “Love among the Ruins,” the comparison between the spectacular city and the ruined city, along with the presentation of the poem helps the reader comprehend the poem
it may never recover. The speaker dwells on the past and what had been. Attached to a person, place, or thing could become detrimental, especially when you become detached. Robert Frost articulates the loss of something through the words vanished, ruined, and disused and forgotten. Frost knows exactly how to captivate the reader and the attention by being spontaneous. When something has vanished, that substance is no longer there to be seen. The house has vanished and is no longer on the base that
One’s pretty lively when ruined,” said she. (Lines17-20) This women seemed to be a women because she was loved. Now for an example of loving others, in the fiction story by Toni Cade Bambara called “My Man Bovanne,” giving purpose. In this story the main