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By Thomas Hardy. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were. When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town. Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,
Part of Hardy’s elegiac sequence “Poems 1912-13,” ‘The Voice’ explores the poet’s complex grief after Emma’s death. The speaker begins by describing a familiar voice calling to him, reminiscent of his wife in her younger days when their relationship was “fair.” As the poem progresses, he questions whether he truly hears her or ...
British poet Thomas Hardy wrote "The Voice" as part of a sequence of poems inspired by the death of his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1912. The poem's speaker, widely agreed to be a version of Hardy himself, hears a woman's voice floating over a meadow towards him.
"The Voice" is a poem by English author Thomas Hardy, which was published in Satires of Circumstance 1914. The Voice. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me. Saying that now you are not as you were. When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear?
A classic poem by Hardy about his dead wife Emma, who he claims to hear calling to him in the autumn wind. The poem explores the themes of memory, loss, and auditory hallucination in a unique metre and language.
Commentary by A. Banerjee, Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature, Kobe College, Japan. In this poignant love lyric about his dead wife, Emma Gifford, Hardy imagines that she, whom he has much missed, has reappeared in spirit and is calling him.
A poem by the English poet Thomas Hardy, who recalls a lost love and hears her voice in the wind and the rain. Read the full text, analysis and context of this classic lyric poem.
