[Ttha-potm] re: Childhood among the ferns

[Betty Cortus]

David, I'm delighted with your perceptive comments on the Twelfth  
Night  echoes in the poem.  This hadn't occurred to me, but I think  
you are spot on.  Feste's song ends a comedy on a somber or ironic  
note, just as so many of Hardy's poems, as well as many, if not   
most, of his novels do.
Betty

On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:21 PM, David DeVries wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> “Man’s estate” in close proximity to the rain the boy tries to escape
> brings to my mind Feste’s concluding song.  Hardy’s own earlier  
> evocation
> of Feste in “During Wind and Rain” is about as devastating a gaze  
> at man’s
> estate and the rain as there is: all the splendid adult
> activity—“brightest things that are theirs”—resolved to “down their  
> carved
> names the rain-drop ploughs.”
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