Happiness CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.2 Happiness

In this poem, Thomas Hardy give idea about love . love is happiness. Wherever, happy is experiencing or the effect of favorable fortune and having feeling arising from the consciousness of enjoyment and enjoying good any kind. One love poems about happiness in title : Beeny Cliff. Beeny is a magnificent Cliff near Emma’s old home at St. Juliot where Emma used to ride her house. It is suprising that after marriage they never revisited Cornwall together. Beeny Cliff, also known the Cliff without a name, is a few miles from the village of St. Juliot , Michael Millgate 1976 : 151 Hardy went to the Cliff together Emma while she rode her pony and forty years later when went back there alone. In his notebook Hardy described the scene : “Beeny Cliff… green toward the land, blue- back toward the sea every Ledge has a little, green grass upon it : all vertical part bare Seaward, a dark- grey ocean beneath a pale sky, upon which lie Branches of red aloud. A lather of foam around the base of each rock. The sea is full of motion internally, but still as a whole. Quiet and silent In the distance, noisy and restless close at hand”. According Michael 1984 : 96, Emma was a skilled horse woman and Hardy recalls.. the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free= the woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me. 26 Universitas Sumatera Utara In the first stanza the kind of imagery that is used visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery. The examples of the visual imagery are ‘sea’ in line 1= of that wandering western sea ‘woman’ in line 2 = and the woman and ‘hair’ in line 2 with bright hair flapping free the tension imagery reflected in the word ‘ riding’ in line 2 = and the woman riding high above and ‘ flap’ as in line 2 = with bright hair flapping free . The opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free The woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me. stanza 1, lines 1-3 The first three lines are all set in the past. The brilliant word pictures here describe the beloved Emma riding ‘ high above’ near the sea. In the thesis, I can see also the fair- haired girl on her pony, pictures that have shone in the memory for over forty years. The girl whom he ‘ loved so’ line 3 illustrate passion of love in Hardy and who loyally loves line 3 him illustrate hw intimate Hardy and Emma is. In the second stanza, in the thesis I will meet with two kinds of imagery that are visual imagery and the auditory imagery. The visual imagery reflects an the choices of word such as ‘ mews’ in line 4 = the pale mews plained below us ; ‘the waves’ in line 4 = and the waves seemed far away ; the ‘sky’ in lines 5= in a nether sky ; and the ‘clear- sunned day’ in line 6 = on that clear-sunned march day . 27 Universitas Sumatera Utara The pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far away In their sky, engrossed in saying their ceaseless babbling As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned march day. stanza 2, line 4 -6 The auditory imagery in the second stanza can be seen in the word ‘ ceaseless babbling say’. Here, the readers can imagine that the mews try to speak with the poet in its ‘ ceaseless babbling’ say line 2 the picture that we get from this stanza is that it gives a clear impression of how happy the seagulls’ sound as their laughter and easy everything seems for the young lovers. They are both ‘ a loft’ and laughting light – heartedly also show the intimacy of them, the’ waves’ seem a long way away. The ‘mews’ sea gulls are in the mid – air , lower down. The third stanza below is full with the visual imagery such a cloud in line 7 = A little cloud then cloaked us ; ‘rain’ in line 7 = and there flew an irised rain ; the ‘sun’ in line 9 = and then the sun burst out again ; and the ‘ purple’ color in the last line = and purples prinked the main . A little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain, And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain And then the sun burst out again, and purple prinked the main. stanza 3, line 7-9 28 Universitas Sumatera Utara Hardy is trying to make the thesis writer imagine how the ‘ cloud’ line 7 then hides him and Emma, how he express the ‘ irised rain’ line 7 and then he also makes her ‘sees’ that finally the ‘sun’ bursts out again line 9 which gives the feeling of happiness since the sun appears at the end of the train. The happiness as ell as the beauty of nature comes to the poet. Here, I gets the feeling that she is looking up at them from a great distance, and that they cannot see the abyss and the vast Atlantic under their feet Michael Millgate, 1984 “ 152. In the fourth stanza, we can find the visual imagery such as ‘ sky’ in line 10 = Still in all its chasmal beauty bulks old Beeny to the sky ; tension imagery els in the word ‘go’ in line 11 = and I not go and the auditory imagery in the word ‘ said’ in line 12 = and the sweets things said . In the poem, they are put line in line 10 and 12. Still in all its chasmal beauty bulks ord Benn y to the sky And shall she and I not go- there once- again now March is nigh, And the sweets things said in that March say a new there by and stanza 4, line 10 -12 Three lines above are trying to show that hardy is asking of question to Emma “ shall we go there again ? “ which means going to Beeny Cliff once again as they did in the past which is expressed in line 11 : “And shall she and I not go- there once- again”. 29 Universitas Sumatera Utara In line 12 : “and the sweets things said “ shows how intimacy Hardy and Emma in the p ast time; about love the things said between both of them. In last stanza below, in the thesis, I can find the visual imagery such as ‘ shore’ in line 13 = that will weird western shore ; ‘woman’ in line 14 = Thee woman now is ; and ‘pony’ in line 14 = whom the ambling pony bore Nay. Though still in chasmal beauty looms that wild weird western shore, The woman now is- elsewhere- whom the ambling pony bore, And nor knows nor cares for Beeny, and will see it nevermore. stanza 5, lines 13 -15 The answer of the fourth stanza can be found in the fifth stanza above that the answer of Hardy’s question whether he and Emma can go back to Beeny Cliff to recollect that the things they did in the past no because she is not there anymore meaning Emma id dead and there is no other chance to go there again. The “ chasmal beauty” I think means nothing to him now as Emma is gone. Hardy now realized that happiness does not last forever. As a conclusion, this poems tells about love between Emma and Hardy that happens whn they were at Beeny Cliff. This poem tells about happy they were at that time : moreover, nothing in Beeny Cliff is allowed to darken the pictures of the two lovers, nothing, but time and death. 30 Universitas Sumatera Utara

4.3 Heart Broken sorrowing