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Thought and Silence

In Hardy’s poetry, silence comes first and foremost as an obvious mark of absence, of the emptiness left by the loved ones, once departed. As Poems of 1912-13, the series of poems to his late wife Emma, shows, the poet’s painful sense of isolation from the dead is thus signalled by his inability to...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom,
المؤلف الرئيسي:	Estanove, Laurence
التنسيق:	Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:	Anglais
منشور في:	FATHOM 2013
الموضوعات:	silence poésie ironie voix pensée mutisme agnosticisme isolement poetry irony voice thought muteness agnosticism isolation
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_397 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.397 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.397 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/397 2013-08-21T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gahn All rights reserved Thought and Silence FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Estanove, Laurence silence poésie ironie voix pensée mutisme agnosticisme isolement silence poetry irony voice thought muteness agnosticism isolation In Hardy’s poetry, silence comes first and foremost as an obvious mark of absence, of the emptiness left by the loved ones, once departed. As Poems of 1912-13, the series of poems to his late wife Emma, shows, the poet’s painful sense of isolation from the dead is thus signalled by his inability to communicate with them. Poetry thus breaks the silence of the dead by letting the mute ghosts speak, and beyond that, by giving the speechless and the inanimate — “pensive mutes” — a voice, from insects and animals to trivial objects, incongruous personae of various poems. In reality, the poet and writer also presents himself as a pensive mute, deprived of voice but not of thought, “struck speechless” by the survival of dogmas but still retaining his personal reflexion. The equation between thought and silence or tension between judgment and voice thus appears in several poems which bear the trace of a strong personal commitment on Hardy’s part, both as poet and as man — poems of agnosticism such as “God’s Funeral”, ‟The Impercipient” and “A Sign-Seeker”. The silence imposed on Hardy’s agnostic views points again at the poet’s isolation, cast off as he is by his loss of faith. Central to the ambiguity of thought and silence in Hardy’s verse is the use of irony and pretence, as one of Hardy’s last poems makes it clear: “He Resolves to Say No More”. Dans la poésie de Hardy, le silence se présente tout d’abord comme marque évidente de l’absence et du vide laissé par la disparition des êtres chers. Ainsi qu’on peut le lire dans Poems of 1912-13, série de poèmes que Hardy compose à la mort de sa première épouse Emma, le poète vit cette séparation comme un douloureux isolement, et tente alors par le biais de l’écriture de redonner une voix à ceux que la mort a rendus silencieux. Mais par la diversité des voix poétiques qui se font entendre dans son œuvre, il offre également la parole à ces ‟penseurs muets” que sont les animaux ou les objets. La correspondance entre silence et pensée semble en vérité tout à fait caractéristique de son écriture, puisque c’est lui-même, poète et homme, qu’il met en scène à plusieurs reprises comme penseur muet, frappé de mutisme face à la persistance des dogmes ou à l’impossibilité de donner voix à son agnosticisme. La tension entre voix et jugement apparaît ainsi dans de nombreux poèmes qui relaient les souffrances et l’isolement de celui qui a perdu la foi, poèmes tels que “God’s Funeral”, “The Impercipient” et “A Sign-Seeker”. Chez Hardy, de manière typique, ce sont l’ironie et le faux-semblant qui viennent relayer toute l’ambivalence de cette relation entre pensée et silence, comme en témoigne également l’un des tout derniers poèmes, “He Resolves to Say No More”.
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topic	silence poésie ironie voix pensée mutisme agnosticisme isolement silence poetry irony voice thought muteness agnosticism isolation
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description	In Hardy’s poetry, silence comes first and foremost as an obvious mark of absence, of the emptiness left by the loved ones, once departed. As Poems of 1912-13, the series of poems to his late wife Emma, shows, the poet’s painful sense of isolation from the dead is thus signalled by his inability to communicate with them. Poetry thus breaks the silence of the dead by letting the mute ghosts speak, and beyond that, by giving the speechless and the inanimate — “pensive mutes” — a voice, from insects and animals to trivial objects, incongruous personae of various poems. In reality, the poet and writer also presents himself as a pensive mute, deprived of voice but not of thought, “struck speechless” by the survival of dogmas but still retaining his personal reflexion. The equation between thought and silence or tension between judgment and voice thus appears in several poems which bear the trace of a strong personal commitment on Hardy’s part, both as poet and as man — poems of agnosticism such as “God’s Funeral”, ‟The Impercipient” and “A Sign-Seeker”. The silence imposed on Hardy’s agnostic views points again at the poet’s isolation, cast off as he is by his loss of faith. Central to the ambiguity of thought and silence in Hardy’s verse is the use of irony and pretence, as one of Hardy’s last poems makes it clear: “He Resolves to Say No More”.
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title	Thought and Silence
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