Who is digging on my grave poem

An important aspect to the poem 's structure is that it is written sequentially in order to prepare the reader for an unsettling ending. Hardy takes us on a downward …show more content… She is told that her enemy, "cares not where you lie" p.

Similarly, as with her loved ones, her enemy simply thinks the woman no more worth her time to worry about. In the next stanza, the woman has exhausted all of the possibilities, so she gives up and asks who is there. She now finds out that it is her dog.

Hardy himself loved animals and it is not a surprise that he would use a dog as the digger. As seen in Victorian Poetry , Hardy, "always championed kindness to animals" 9: Friends Beyond. The Walk. The Ivy. Birds at Winter Nightfall Triolet. Departure Southampton Docks: October, The To. Pmel - While we're still alive, we often take for granted other people's kindness and only when we lose our ground will we discover what we have really done Sir Ima Cucumber - It expresses so much about Hardy, his writing, and of course about how the dead are forgotten.

The end is bitter irony, that even the most devoted forget us But that is also our strength, that we can forget, heal, I suppose it is callous but maybe necessary.

Of course his poem is too cynical, but sometimes that's what we feel and want to write or read, thoughts less logical, more emotional. The fidelity we receive and expect during our life seems here to be forgotten by all at our death, even by our most faithful friend, our pet, at least according to Hardy.

Ahkam - The poem is in narrative form. Thomas Hardy, a novelist, a short story writer and a very fine poet has categorically described the value of worldly love after death. Somewhat the same concept that W.

Yeats has given in his very beautiful poem 'For Anne Gregory' and through personal experiences one has to agree with him. Then who is digging on my grave? My nearest dearest kin? What good will planting flowers produce? No tendance of her mound can loose Her spirit from Death's gin.