(Poem #519) The Roman Road The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath. And thoughtful men Contrast its days of Now and Then, And delve, and measure, and compare; Visioning on the vacant air Helmeted legionnaires, who proudly rear The Eagle, as they pace again The Roman Road. But no tall brass-helmeted legionnaire Haunts it for me. Uprises there A mother's form upon my ken, Guiding my infant steps, as when We walked that ancient thoroughfare, The Roman Road. |
There is something ineffably romantic about the old Roman roads, those enduring remnants of a vanished empire. They spoke then, and speak now, of the might and organization of that empire, and their present day existence is a continuing point of contact between Then and Now. It is the second of these properties that forms the basis of Hardy's poem, a reflection on the Road, and the way it bridges the past and present - except that he refers to a far more personal and immediate past, and in doing so, raises the road to the same level of immediacy. The two images overlap - the Road of the ancient Romans, that survives even now and recalls a bygone civilisation, and the road of the poet's youth, recalling a bygone past. And finally, the use of 'ancient' in the penultimate line brings the whole thing into focus - the road not only is ancient, it *was* ancient even in childhood memory, and so the timeline clicks into place and two roads become one again. Links: You can find a biography at poem #96 We've recently done a theme on ancient Rome: poem #490 poem #492 poem #494 poem #495 And rather longer ago, one on roads: poem #47 poem #49 poem #51 And, of course, you can see all the previous Hardy poems we've run at [broken link] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet.html PostScript: This is, by Hardy's standards, a remarkably cheerful poem :) -martin
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* [Martin Julian DeMello on 19/08/00 05:00 -0500]
> The Roman Road runs straight and bare
> As the pale parting-line in hair
Wow ... typical Hardy ;) Does the man write about anything other than the
blasted heaths and moors? Yes in fact - see 'The Trumpet Major' - set in the
same moors, but far more lighthearted than, say, Jude the Obscure or The Mayor
of Casterbridge.
Surefire recipe for depression-induced suicide ...
1. Read Thomas Hardy
2. Play Floyd / Doors / Dead in the background
3. Get stoned on grass / vodka
;)
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