... though it had soured considerably. The first poem in the series entitled "The Going", deals specifically with the suddeness of Emma's death in the first line: "Why quickly did you give no hint that night/ That quickly after the morrow's dawn, / And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone- The word "indifferent" is carefully placed and is the start of a recurring theme: It ... "Yes, I companion him to places/ Only dreamers know .where the past is all to him, / Close as his shade can do, / Always lacking the power to call to him,- Hardy writes that ...

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... that he is thinking and encourages him to take charge and make the prophecies reality. Macbeth does not like being ridiculed by his wife. She dictates a plan to him before he has a chance to disagree. Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but the serpent under it. He that's coming must be provided for: and you shall put this night's great business into ... a promise, as a means of luring him into committing to anything necessary to gain more power for herself. How tender "tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was milking in my face, have pluck"d my nippl...

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