The speaker reflects back to a particular moment in their life when they realised that the love had died ... Sheers discuss the poems ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Winter Swans ...

Thomas Hardy’s marriage to Emma Gifford went from romantic to estranged, and yet he was grief-stricken when she died.

Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Thomas Hardy, with its blend of bitterness of tenderness, its intense dramatisations of loss and grief, and its inversion of traditional tropes of love ...

be careful to include only details that reveal something about the poem. Thomas Hardy faced many disappointments in his personal relationships, but it is unclear if this poem is about a specific ...