For a school paper, I'm writing about how different people analize poems differently. So if you could please tell me what you think about this poem and why, it would be greatly appriciated.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Hap

If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.

But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.



Thanx a bunches!!!

Happy to help, but you have to understand that we get a lot of poseurs in here. Those merely hoping to have someone else do their homework assignments for them, that is. So the rule is, with any such questions, the poster has to go first. You gotta roll out your interpretation, being at the front of the line, so to speak.

Keep in mind that Hardy had a lot of problems with his religious faith in later years.

>I'm writing about how different people analize poems differently

Here's an article about how to analyze a poem:

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Les

Im trying to figure out what Out Out by Robert Frost is all about. Any hlp would be great.

Here you go:

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les

I don't know if that was the right link or not. And, for some reason, it failed to be clickable, even though it seems correctly formed.

Anyway, it's about this kid who gets his hand cut off by a saw at work, then dies from the shock. From an article that Frost read in a newspaper story way back when.

For extra credit, find out what Lady Macbeth has to do with the title.

Out out damn spot!

Referring to the blood on her hands

In his poem “Hap” Thomas Hardy writes about chance and the random nature of life.

In the first stanza he writes of his desire that “some vengeful god would call to [him]/ From up the sky and laugh.” He wishes that the god would admit to taking joy from the suffering of the lowly mortal. Why does Hardy ask for such a sadistic, vengeful god? Hardy gives his answer in the second stanza of the poem. He writes that the existence of such a god would allow him to bear his sufferings with a feeling of righteous anger, or “ire unmerited.” The existence of such a god would be useful to Hardy because he could direct all his anger created by suffering at one being. It would also ease his suffering to know that “ a powerfuller than [himself]/ had willed and meted me the tears [he] shed.” In other words, Hardy’s suffering would be reduced if only he knew that some force greater than he had caused the suffering he experiences. In the third stanza Hardy laments about the fact that the existence of such a convenient, vengeful god is “not so.” After he states that no malevolent god exists to deal out his sorrows, he asks, “How arrives it joy lies slain,/ and why unblooms the best hope ever sown?” Why should he not be happy if there is no malevolent force preventing it? Why should all his hopes be ruined? Hardy answers his own questions by writing that “Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/ and dicing time for gladness casts a moan.” In other words, Hardy is saying that only random chance is responsible for his suffering. In the last two lines of his poem he writes about the fact that random chance has indifferently given him as many blessings as sufferings in his life.

that analysis was done by Chris Davidson.
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thats the webpage.
give a bit of credit next time, eh?

thanks for pointing that out rar.