Relationships with the Dead in Wordsworths We Are Seven and Hardys Di

Relationships with the Dead in Wordsworths We are Seven and Hardys gibe One can outlast death not in a divine after life but only in a human one. If the poet dies or forgets his beloved, he murders her (Ramazani 131) Thomas Hardys belief of the poets debt instrument of remembrance establishes the basis for his, Ah, argon You Digging on My Grave?. Fearing he abandoned his own wife before her death, Hardy wrote the rime to pick out the memorial responsibilities of the poet (Ramazani 131). Whereas Hardy tries to atone for his sins by continually grieving everywhere his bushed(p) wife, the fuel behind William Wordsworths We Are Seven, is a oral sex of being and existence (Trilling 57). This question stems from the fact that nothing was more onerous for Wordsworth in childhood than to hold back the notion of death as a state applicable to his own being (Noyes 60). Despite the vastly antithetical intentions of the poets, Hardy and Wordsworth both depict relationships between the backup and the dead in their poems however, while Hardy humorously satirizes how the living forget the dead, Wordsworth demonstrates a childs refusal to avow the dead as being gone. In their poems, Hardy and Wordsworth both fuel the use of conversation however, the fictional conversation in Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?, contrasts the non-fictional dialogue in We Are Seven. Hardys poem uses the ballad convention of The Unquiet Grave- a dialogue between living and dead (Johnson 48), in this case, between a deceased woman and her red hot Wordsworths poem consists of an actual confrontation he had with a little young woman when he traveled through Europe. Hardys willingness to use disembodied voices for the intended map of creating... ...ument Wordsworth brings up, the girl replies, Nay, we are seven (Wordsworth 1333). She lacks the ability to accept death and this absence of sentience makes the poem so touching (Drabble 51). What began as a simple ordinary conversation f inished as a didactic and somewhat turned on(p) poem. Wordsworth, through a real life conversation, presents the obscurity and perplexity which in childhood attend our notion of death, or rather our inability to admit that notion (Noyes 60). In direct contrast to Wordsworth, who did not intend to writie a deep, meaning(prenominal) poem, Hardy knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish by writing, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave. People too easily remove the dead from their memories, and Hardy wanted to admonish his readers of the importance of remembering the dead in effect(p) because the dead are gone, they should not be forgotten.