'How Great My Grief' (Triolet) Comments

Hardy was a great poet

Really very sensitive though short

ADDITION: 5 Stars for Thomas Hardy's Triolet

FINAL: The speaker reflects on the scarcity of fond moments over the years and the inability of memory or nostalgia to reshape those times. Ultimately, the poem stops short of regretting ever having met their supposed beloved.

This poem centers on the poignant expression of grief by a speaker struggling with domestic life's difficulties. Rather than mourning the loss of a loved one, the poem illustrates the spiraling anxiety of realizing that the person they are with romantically brings more grief than joy.

I wonder how a very simple poem emanated from great Hardy. The straight forward with crystal clear meang.. nothing is there to interpret except to put spotlight on the depth of poet's grief.

There is a pensive note in this poem.

Excellent theme of the poem and beautiful poem...♥️♥️♥️

I have known him as a novelist but I think he deserves more for poetry too. Wonderful poem.

.....wonderful poem, and excellent theme ★

Human being having a good mind and inner awakening and love is always welcome in society and his services to the fellow human being is also helpful for the human development and basic and positive habits of compassion. The memories of the past is a continuing experience for an individual and someone more awakened surely reopens his mind and thinks about the past both the success and failures of the past and his own thinking of that time which is always an interesting subject which is not normally passing to others in conversations. Here the great poet opens his mind to himself and remembers the grief of the past and the few joys he have got in this worldly living.He understands the values of the universal power who gave such a fate and love in this life. The poem is an emotional one and poet himself thinks about himself and sees the universal power who destined the sorrow and happiness in once own life.

Hardy wisely chose and perfectly executed the best medium (the triolet) to playfully express wit and sarcasm.

i relly like this poem it makes me hard as a rock. dont worry, im asian so its okay for me to not be racist towards others. can someone tell me if hes a jew or not because i want to meet him if hes not.

This poem can be smd i belive it was ritten by a jew. im asian so im not racist.

Always together, eternally apart is grief and its factor. How great the grief, the joy how few... There's more to this piece... Hmmm. Does this mean fate can predetermine grief?

How great His grief, it's just the same For those who come to know Thee For we see struggles in the game How great His grief, it's just the same For those who follow in Your Name When we realize the pain of those who chose to know Thee How great His grief, it's just the same For the world laughs at those who chose to know Thee

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! Two very powerful declarative lines, outline a life which becomes mainly 'slow years' of intense sorrow, with few respites of joy, after a meeting of ill omen. The moral seems to be choose acquaintances and friends wisely and think carefully, before making life altering choices, because some options have devastating consequences. These sentiments are delightfully expressed in a revealing way. This is a cleverly written poem crafted to a rigid requisite. The triolet must be written with eight lines rhyming in an exact rhyme scheme of abaaabab. The first, fourth, and seventh lines must be exactly the same, and the second and eighth lines. Thomas Hardy has written an interesting triolet, which laments the haunting memory of an error of judgement.

Brings forth the point, we meet people who impact our lives sometimes, beyond our comprehension and emotional control.

this style of writing is close to pantoum or lyrics of a song. he could be just singing a tune...hoping somebody listen.

By repetition he tells us about the intensity of his grief in life! A technique with some effect may make the matter more formidable than actual!