... any changes, to rectify mistakes, to share a moment again. And now he is a "dead man held on end", at the mercy of time of which no one has any control. The success of "The Going" emanates from the sincerity of Hardy's emotions and thoughts, making it one of his best in the sequence. The next poem poses questions as to what we know of death, and what happens afterwards. Hardy says there is no philosophy behind ... on a Grave" he writes of her spirit changing into the growing like the grass and daisies on "her mound Like stars on the ground,/Till she form part of them -/ Ay - the sweet h...

• Word Count: 1972
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School