Although his form is tightly structured, his descriptions of the sinking of the Titanic (above) and his foreshadowing of the First World War in “Channel Firing” are testaments to a bleak world that Yeats and Eliot will explore in greater detail
Unlike the rural, natural settings of his novels, Hardy’s poetry shifted towards the inexorable forces of modernity emerging in England. Although his form is tightly structured, his descriptions of the sinking of the Titanic (above) and his foreshadowing of the First World War in “Channel Firing” are testaments to a bleak world that Yeats and Eliot will explore in greater detail