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The text maps key tragic aspects—such as pride, misfortune, mistaken choices, suffering and grief, ghosts, and death—across 17 poems and stresses that all poems must be analysed for a comprehensive view. 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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of tragedy. There are some brief comments on how some aspects of the genre can be linked to the poems, although teachers and students may well think of other relevant ideas. Not all of the individual poems contain every aspect of the genre and this is reflected in the commentary. We hope the commentary will provide a useful starting point and a springboard for thinking about the text in more detail. It is important to note that the Hardy poetry selection is an examination set text for AS students only, though Hardy can be studied by A-level students for the Non-exam assessment (NEA) .  \nOverview  \nThere are 17 poems in this selection of Hardy's poetry for students to study for the genre of tragedy. The poems offer snapshots of tragic experiences. It is important that all poems are studied since it is together they will offer a comprehensive understanding of the tragic genre. An extract from any poem can also be chosen for the AS questions so all poems need to have been analysed during the course in terms of tragedy. Some poems contain more than one aspect of tragedy, especially the ballads, A Sunday Morning Tragedy and The Trampwoman's Tragedy, which tell stories of love and death, but students will also find evidence of different tragic aspects in the poetry selection, for example:  \npride, the fall from happiness into misery, tragic mistakes, accidents, belatedness, the joy of the past compared to the present, the vagaries of fortune, uncaring deities, tragic realisation, death and living death, ghosts, suffering and grief, silence and reticence, and optimistic and despairing resolutions. The tragic experiences are told through a range of contrasting voices. In studying the poems, it is possible students will see that the attitudes towards these tragic experiences are therefore conflicting and contradictory.  \nSome of the poems in the selection are personal, written after the death of Hardy's wife Emma. While it is likely these elegiac poems are expressions of personal grief and consolation, students need to remember that much is conjecture and their application could be universal. Although it is convenient to refer to Emma and Hardy as the protagonists of these poems, it has to be  \nremembered that Hardy has constructed the voices, artistically representing himself and his deceased wife.  \nContext  \nBetween 1898 and 1928 , when Hardy died, he published over one thousand poems. Some of the poems were written much earlier. The contexts in which he wrote are significant to the tragic aspects which are expressed. He was influenced by social changes in the Victorian and Edwardian worlds he witnessed and also by events in his personal life, specifically Emma's death in 1912. Hardy wrote and published his poems at a time when ideas ignited by Darwin's Origin of Species were beginning to take hold. Many people including his readers and reviewers still believed that the world was created by an all-powerful and all loving God, although there were some dissenters. Scientific and technological changes were also affecting the world, as were Freud's studies in psychology. Victorian and Edwardian England was dominated by ideas about social class; the gradations of society were rigid, including the position of women. Hardy himself was a mason's son trying to succeed in London's literary society. Although he was not from a farm labouring background, his proximity to it made him aware of the poverty experienced by those at the bottom of the social scale. Hardy lived in a time when capital punishment was part of the judicial system and those who were the least advantaged socially suffe","cbCaicVfqCECxQUp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicVfqCECxQUp","pdf",156196,"English","# Overview\n## Tragic aspects across the selection\n## Context\n## Tragic settings\n## Tragedy of love and marriage","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Hardy selection text overview?\",\"answer\":\"It provides teachers with an introductory framework for planning how Hardy’s selected poems can be considered through the lens of tragedy.\"},{\"question\":\"Why must all 17 poems be studied for the genre of tragedy?\",\"answer\":\"Because each poem contributes different tragic experiences, and together they give a comprehensive understanding of the tragic genre; AS questions can use extracts from any poem, so all poems need analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"What contextual factors shape the tragic experiences expressed in Hardy’s poems?\",\"answer\":\"The text links Hardy’s writing to late-Victorian and Edwardian social change, personal events such as Emma’s death in 1912, broader scientific and psychological developments, and historical realities including rigid social class and the use of capital punishment.\"}]","Hardy Selection - Aspects of Tragedy - Text Overview | PDF",1792467891]