Análisis i look into my glass

“I LOOK INTO MY GLASS” BY THOMAS HARDY

I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, "Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!"

For then, I, undistrest
By heartsgrown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.

But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 near the town of Dorchester in Dorset County, England. In 1861 he went to London to practice architecture and complete a general education where he becameinterested in literature and started to write poetry.
He was a novelist and a poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenmentperiods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. In his poems Hardy shows the perversity of fate, human sorrow, frustration, regret, sadness and the ironic coincidences of life thatdestroy man. He thought that the force that governs the universe can not be described as God. The archetypical scene in a Hardy poem is a man meditating on his losses surrounded by ghosts findingcompany and sometimes answers to his problems.
In one of his best poems “I look into my glass” we can see the hard situation of an old person who is looking himself at the mirror; he is watching how theoldness has come to his life and begs God for an explanation to his problem. Then shows that finally he has lost all hope, because his oldness is a real life fact, the pass of time and itsconsequences, from now on he has to accept his destiny:
“Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!”
When we read the poem we could perceive that he is describing the way he feels in his life,besides of being old, he feels so lonely, he feels bored and without motivation to live because of his age, also the resignation that he has is because he knows that someday he is going to die and he...