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Thomas Hardy has written some poems in which he gives us some images of memory. Generally speaking, it was in the later part of his life that he had written his poems and published them; and his poems should naturally draw the old man who looks back his own experiences in the past, which might illustrate that Hardy is one of 'the scathed and memoried men'. 'After a Journey', 'Afterwards' and 'The Oxen' would be considered as the typical pieces of such composition. But Hardy, writing those memory-poems, seems to have found some particular meanings and purposes in the use of memory-images. After the death of Emma Hardy, for instance, he visited St. Juliot, as if attracted by the illusory image of his wife in her flowering age. And there, he, looking back his married life with her, could find himself just the same as when he was young and joyful. Or, when he was more than seventy years old, he could expect a new life after his death, remembering his past life which was spent, with the villagers, admiring beauty of nature as well as birds and animals. In 1915, he composed 'The Oxen', where he tried to recover the religious vision on Christmas Eve through the childish innocence. Among these memory-images, Hardy always seeks after his own integrity with success, which should deliver himself from his critical, rather tragical, life experiences and lead him into a new kind of religious serenity. This poetic process illustrated in Hardy's memory-poems will lead us to call him a successful modern poet.
財団法人日本英文学会の論文
1964-03-31

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加納秀夫
元都立大学

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