Hardy/Eliot - connections

Conflict

The Drummer Hodge/The Hollow Men (war)

The Voice/Portrait of a Lady (personal/romantic)

love and Relationships

To Lizbie Browne/Prufrock (Longing for something never had/reflective+invented love)

The Voice/Portrait of a Lady (separation+ventriloquising)

Disorder

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (world in disarray)

The Voice/Prufrock (Love and personal life in disarray)

Setting

Drummer Hodge/The Hollow Men (bleak and war-torn with glimmers of hope and optimism)]

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (Industrialising world)

Loneliness/Isolation

The Voice/The Hollow Men (Isolation in loss)

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (Isolated in a turbulent and changing world)

To Lizbie Browne/Prufrock (lonely in relationships)

Voice/speaker

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (isolated and lost speakers who speak to the poet’s fears)

To Lizbie Browne/Portrait of a Lady (romantic, but isolated and not powerful? vulnerable)

Faith

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (changing industrial World without faith)

The Oxen/The Hollow Men (A world with remnants of faith, searching for a greater meaning)

Time

The Darkling Thrush/Preludes (fear for the future)

Afterwards/Prufrock (running out of time, mortality)

Death

Afterwards/Prufrock (elegiac/legacy/mortality)

The Drummer Hodge/The Hollow Men (war)

nature