Question

Thomas Hardy addresses "Love" in his cynical poem "I Said to Love": I said to Love,/ It is not now as in old days/ When men adored thee and thy ways.../ Who spread a heaven beneath the sun,/ I said to Love. ___________________

Answer 1

Answer:

Personification of Love using 'Apostrophe'

Explanation:

Thomas Hardy mourns for his wife, Emma. He personifies Love so that he can express his pain and suffering with a sense of remorse.  He suggests that the only way to find peace with pain is to personify the emotion that causes the pain. It is written in remembrance of the lost love.

Thomas Hardy, in his poem "I Said to Love", connotes his love through Apostrophe- A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an idea, a person or a thing. It is one of the methods implied by Hardy so as to enrich his poem with artistic merits.