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Genius Annotation

Hardy was a keen observer. There are an array of instances of alliteration throughout the poem.

the first stanza is the description of the place. It is a bazaar, full of merchants selling their goods, each one with its own wagon. It is raining. It also presents the characters which are a man, his wife and a pony (it is not a healthy and strong horse, it is a pony…gives a weak connotation). The man is shouting his goods but not in a lively way. He shouts them without passion, as in a funeral and he has a Turks head brush. There are many words related to death and this gives a very negative atmosphere. The three characters are old and this is conveyed when it describes the horse´s hairs as Whitey Brown.

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