"The Voice," by Thomas Hardy
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In "The Voice," Thomas Hardy begins the poem with a personification of the idea of the woman he is missing not as "a" woman or "the" woman but as "Woman much missed" (1). She is thus Everywoman in the context of the poem even though she is also the specific woman who is now missing from his life but who once was part of that life as a flesh-and-blood person. The poem shows a man experiencing the desolation of a loss. The woman he is missing has presumably died, for there is something ghost-like about the way he seems to hear her voice everywhere. He tries in the poem to remember the woman as she was before "you had changed from the one who was all to me" (3). In either case, the sadness felt by the speaker is palpable. It takes form in the world around him as if part of the wind. The poem consists of four stanzas. The first introduces the situation--the woman is no longer a physical par
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Thomas Hardy, specific woman, woman woman, idea woman, woman missing, idea woman woman, woman woman missed, woman met, woman missed, breeze voice, sense woman,
Approximate Word count = 606
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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