"Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?"

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This paper explores Thomas Hardy's poem "Ah, are you digging on my grave?" The paper explains Hardy's concept of death and highlights the poem's satirical tone. The paper notes that the poem also contains autobiographical elements.

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"Ah Are You Digging on My Grave." In his poem "Ah Are You Digging on My Grave" by Thomas Hardy, the poet challenges Western society's conventional beliefs about death. Aparna Zambare writes in Library Journal that in this work as in some of Hardy's other poetry, the dead still have a voice. In the poem the deceased is a woman who at the opening of the poem senses a shifting in the earth above her grave."

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