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This was a summary of the poem "Hap" written by Thomas Hardy in the Modernistic era....

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Marquel Warner Harris EN232 Professor Shawver March 28, 2015 Hap

Thomas Hardy’s Modernistic Poem, “Hap”, has many features of deviating from the era against being a Pre-Modern poem against the end of the Romanticism era. As reviewed, the characteristics of the Romantic Era within poetry and literature involved primal simplistic, naturalistic, and supernatural/spiritual elements. Romanticism is very heavy in the use of nature, as poets, authors, and other contributors to literature would use nature as some sort of instructor or teacher, but also a best friend or guardian angel provided the job to protect and cherish you. It focuses on the element of the self, more so of the uniqueness of people of how they live their lives. It also revolves around the traditions of civilizations. However with some or all of the characteristics listed, Romanticism is central towards the analysis and examination of the Poet’s inner emotions.

First off, the content of the poem opens up with an entity from the sky, or someone we would figure to be God himself is scourning down upon the speaker. He tells him that God enjoys the fact the speaker is suffering.

... “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy”

The speaker goes on about how he would be fulfilled upon the fact that knowing God or some high entity in the clouds of such admires his suffering would bring a “half-ease” towards him, for one knowing a purpose for his suffering and who’s behind it. He goes on about how such a notion “Had willed and meted me the tears I shed”. This goes heavily

against the Romantic idea of such celestial forces or cosmos that may coincide with nature and human and be allied together, because of the fact the speaker states God enjoys suffering. Instead of God filling one up with delight, it’s almost an element of mockery to a sense, stating Nature doesn’t really want or has no correlation to his or her well-being. Looking upon similarities of Hap and Romanticism would be looking at the fact there is a powerful entity of God involved in this piece as well, just on contra objectives.

“—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .” After realizing the latter half of his “half-ease”, he states “Crass Casualty” meaning some type of time availability....