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The Going

The Going. Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallow To gain one glimpse of you ever anon!.

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The Going

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  1. The Going

  2. Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite,You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallowTo gain one glimpse of you ever anon!

  3. Never to bid good-bye, Or lip me the softest call,Or utter a wish for a word, while ISaw morning harden upon the wall, Unmoved, unknowing That your great goingHad place that moment, and altered all.

  4. Why do you make me leave the houseAnd think for a breath it is you I seeAt the end of the alley of bending boughsWhere so often at dusk you used to be; Till in darkening dankness The yawning blanknessOf the perspective sickens me!

  5. You were she who abode By those red-veined rocks far West,You were the swan-necked one who rodeAlong the beetling Beeny Crest, And, reining nigh me, Would muse and eye me,While Life unrolled us its very best.

  6. Why, then, latterly did we not speak,Did we not think of those days long dead,And ere your vanishing strive to seekThat time's renewal? We might have said, 'In this bright spring weather We'll visit togetherThose places that once we visited.'

  7. Well, well! All's past amend, Unchangeable. It must go.I seem but a dead man held on endTo sink down soon.... O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing --Not even I -- would undo me so!

  8. Write a letter as Thomas Hardy to Emma • Base your content on the poem, “The Going” • Each stanza of the poem represents a paragraph of the letter • Rewrite and rephrase the poem into your own words, appropriate to form – ie, a letter to your loved one, therefore requiring a personal, informal tone • Think about tone, “translation” from poetry to letter, content and any ideas that you develop. Dear Emma, I can’t believe it – I can’t believe you. You gave me no indication that anything was wrong: no clue that that night was the last we would share with one another, and that by morning, you would be dead...

  9. Consider these key aspects of Language. How does Hardy use Language…

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