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John Welford
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Poetry Explained
Dec 17, 2022
The Shadow On The Stone: A Poem by Thomas Hardy
The poet imagines that his late wife’s ghost is…
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John Welford
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Poetry Explained
Dec 17, 2022
The Absolute Explains: A Poem by Thomas Hardy
The poet gains comfort from his interpretation of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
This is one of Thomas Hardy’s later poems, published in 1925 in “Human Shows, Far…
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Poetry Explained does exactly that. The aim is to present poems — both great and maybe not-so-great — put them in context, analyse their structure and meaning, and maybe offer a word or two of criticism.
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Albert Einstein
Relativity
Thomas Hardy
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John Welford
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Julia A. Keirns
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