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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis deals with Thomas Hardy's selected poems of "Poems of
1912-13". The writer through this thesis endeavors to find out the significant
contribution of the speaker's memory of his past experiences with his
beloved in helping him revive his love to her. In order to grasp sufficient
comprehension of "Poems of 1912-13" in relation to the speaker's love's
revival, the thesis writer pinpoints on four key poems, "The Going", "The
Voice", "After a Journey", and "At Castle Boterel". In probing those four
poems, the thesis writer uses literary devices of tone, imagery, denotation
and connotation, and psychological theories of memory. Those literary
theories are used to reveal the speaker's underlying motivation in reviving
his love to her and the process on reviving his love with the help of memory.
The theories of memory reveals the significant contribution of the speaker's
memory in helping revive his love to her. The analysis itself deals with two
important points. The first is relating to the speaker's condition before and
immediately after the beloved's death which serves as the underlying
motivation of his decision to revive his love. It is "The Going" that depicts
those conditions leading to his decision to revive his love to her. While the
second point relates to the speaker's love revival that succeeds due to the
contribution of his memory of his past experiences with his beloved as
described by "The Voice", "After a Journey" and "At Castle Boterel". The
analysis results in proving the significance of the memory to help the speaker
in reviving his love to his beloved by retaining, reviving and especially by
re-experiencing the happy moment with her. Thus, memory proves itself to
be one of the most essential capacities in human life that enables humans
encode, restore, and retrieve impressions of experiences or moments as
shown by the speaker's memory in selected poems of "Poems of 1912-13".