Afterwards Poem by Thomas HardyAfterwards Rating: ★3.1 ♡ Autoplay When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, 'He was a man who used to notice ...
This essay provides an explication of the poem "Afterwards" by Thomas Hardy. A naturalist writer and well-known novelist during his time, Hardy has been increasingly celebrated in the decades following his death. In "Afterwards," the poet crafts a variation of a pastoral elegy in which a spea...