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At an Inn - Coggle Diagram
At an Inn
Themes
Longing
What if
Unrequited love
Duty
Marriage
Structure & Language
Regular metre timbre (6 syllables)
Diameter 4 syllables
First person which is unusual for the anthology
Parallelism and comparison
Dynamic and lively
Poet & Context
Thomas Hardy
Not university educated
romantic era writer
written about Horace Hiker whom he wished to have an affair with
Plot
Set to meet at an inn where Hardy hopes to be physical
Henniker rejects him and states that they must only remain friends
Linking Poems
Ae Fond Kiss: both return to husbands
Who so list to hunt: unrequited and unsatisfied love
Key Quotes