At Castle Boterel
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This poem describes Hardy driving down a road in Cornwall and recalling an event that took place there between himself and Emma 40 years prior. The first stanza establishes the present day setting with drizzle falling as Hardy drives. The following stanzas fade into the past, recounting a time when Hardy and Emma climbed the same road together on a dry March evening. Hardy reminisces fondly yet sadly about their time together, as Emma is no longer living.
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At Castle Boterel
- 1. AT CASTLE BOTEREL By Natalia Berg, Ella Brown, Kayleigh Horner-Hughes, Tom Johnson & Marc Walsh
- 2. SUMMARY Hardy is driving down a road in Cornwall and is recalling an event which took place there between himself and Emma 40 years before. The poem opens in the present with Hardy driving to the junction of a road with drizzle falling. He then fades into reminiscing about what happened between him and Emma.
- 3. CONTEXT Written during March 1913 when Hardy visited Cornwall after the death of his wife. Castle Boterel is Boscatle about a mile from St. Juliot. This is where Emma lived when she first met Hardy.
- 4. As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway, And see on its slope, now glistening wet, Distinctly yet
- 5. Myself and a girlish form benighted In dry March weather. We climb the road Beside a chaise. We had just alighted To ease the sturdy ponys load When he sighed and slowed.
- 6. How setting is created in At Castle Boterel SETTING
- 7. DRIVING Entire stanza emphasises the lonesome drive and also how Hardy is now on his own. I look behind at the fading highway Suggests he is the only person on the road, and therefore is vulnerable, because he has no one to look out for him.
- 8. USE OF WEATHER Stanza One Describes how the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette Stanza Two Describes the dry March weather This greatly contrasts to show the difference in Hardys emotions from the present day to how he felt when he was with Emma, 40 years ago. It shows how he still misses her, but then when he reflects on the time they spent together his brightens.
- 9. How characters are created in At Castle Boterel CHARACTERS
- 10. NARRATOR (HARDY) Shows Hardy as quite an emotional man. Use of Pathetic Fallacy drizzle bedrenches the waggonette Builds Hardy up to be a very needy man, who misses Emma. Through the constant use of We What we did as we climbed, and what we talked of
- 11. EMMA We are not informed that she has died, however the pain that Hardy is showing does suggest it. Never again.
- 12. STRUCTURE Distinctly yet is on its own, making it literally distinct. Fading byway suggests how we are fading into his memories. Regular structure, flows like a path and feeling fled on its own impression of being alone and empty, without feeling. The time when he is recollecting almost becomes reality as he tells it in the present tense; We climb the road Verses end with short sentences, to emphasise the meaning and make the endings stand out more, it could also show Emmas abrupt ending to life.
- 13. VO I C E / N A R R AT I V E P E R S P E C T I V E The poem is told by Thomas Hardy Recollection of an event from the past. Shows the significance of the event. A time of such quality Poem ends with never again showing how now it has ended never will it be revisited again, as perhaps it was too painful and reminds him of what will never be again. Recollection of an event from the past. Shows the significance of the event. A time of such quality The time when he is recollecting almost becomes reality as he tells it in the present tense; We climb the road
- 14. THEMES Longing He wants to be with Emma again. Redemption He wants to make right of the past, so he tries to remember the good times he spent with her.