1. In Thomas Hardy’s poem “Hap” he begins by questioning
whether it would be better if our God, or the power higher than us, would come
and tell us life will not be so great and there are good times and bad times. A
lot of Hardy’s poems show pain, so it seems like he had a not so happy life,
which is what this poem is about. He brings up the question of whether or not
we should have ever been introduced to happiness, and instead everyone was sad
because then we would never know what happiness was. No one would ever be as
sad as they are now, there’d be no depression, because we would not have been
exposed to happiness and wouldn’t know the difference between being sad and
happy. Hardy would prefer a pattern or something given by our God rather than
just leaving everything up to chance and never knowing when you’ll feel good or
bad. Another one of Hardy’s poems, “How Great My Grief” relates to this poem
because it emphasizes how he had felt he had such little moments of joy in his
life. In the end he asks if it was his fate to be miserable just like in “Hap”.
2.
Biggest Lie of All
As I sit by the bay
Reminiscing about our past,
I think of all the days
Our feelings grew so fast.
All the hours spent talking
About the days of joy to come
Are now in my head mocking
Me, I feel I’m going numb.
How you just left me like that,
I’m crying can’t you see
I’ll never understand your reasons why.
You walked on me as if I was a mat
And you told me you loved me,
Well that was a lie.
