Open AccessOrder versus disorder in Thomas Hardy's ghostly poems
Author(s) -
A. Serdar Öztürk
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
eğitim ve öğretim/eğitim ve öğretim
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2148-239X
pISSN - 2146-0655
DOI - 10.14527/c1s2m8
Subject(s) - poetry , harmony (color) , mistake , faith , order (exchange) , literature , philosophy , art , theology , law , political science , finance , economics , visual arts
There are a lot of supernatural elements like spirits and ghosts in Thomas Hardy's poems. The supernatural elements have very significant roles in his poems though he has no credulous faith in supernatural elements. The ghosts that come uninvited to the mortal World realize their mistake, even if they come motivated by the most altruistic of intentions. They cannot change anything in the mortal world. The harmony and the balance between worlds can be realized only if the mortals and immortals accept their lives as they are, without probing or questioning their worlds.