Passage V-outline "The Voice" by Thomas Hardy

Thesis:
In Thomas Hardy's "The Voice" he use imagery to provoke a longing tone, in order to show how powerful love is. Love is a metaphysical that most have not mastered and some haven't even experienced. Love has the ability to manipulate the emotion of desire or longing. And through Hardy's piece he conveys this tone of desiring and longing also.

Body:
Auditory imagery:
1st line: " Saying that now you are not as you were"
~a womens voice
~rejecting a man
~recalling what she say
`disturbed state; shows the power of love
~a change has occured; a disjoin in the relationship
2nd stanza: "Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,Standing as when I drew near to the town"
~he no longer is recalling accounts of what she says
~he is asking her longing for her in the present time
`provokes this longing tone "let me"
`almost as if he is asking for her permission to look @ her
~the aspect of distance is addressed
`"I drew near to the town"
3rd stanza: "Or is it only the breeze in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here,"
~Visual imagery
~"breeze"- cool calmness
"Listlessness"- not forced but easy and not structure
-Similar to love which has no form or structure
~ "Travelling"- connotes movement and changes
- love has the ability to take u were it wants you to go....