قـُـــروْبـــ طـَــآلبــَـآتــْ مُقدمَــة فيْ الأدَبــــ ...2011

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The Ruined Maid

تحليل القصيدة من موقع enotes.. بالمرفقات.. رتبته بطريقتي واخذت الاشياء المهمه والمفيده منه
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اول سؤال:
What does "ruined" mean?
Amelia is aware of her situation of being “ruined,” but she has easily come to terms with it because she is doing so well financially. She has not shed all her previous colloquialisms, as may be seen in her concluding sentence “You ain’t ruined” (line 23). “Ruined” has the double meaning of (a) an actual ruined reputation, and (b) the benefits that come from an increase in financial circumstances. Hardy is not using the poem to attack conventional moral judgments, but he certainly is raising the issue of whether strict morality might have too great a cost, particularly in view of the deions in stanzas 4 and 5 of Amelia’s ill condition, both physically and psychologically, before leaving the farm. The poem is satirical, and it upsets prejudgments about the moral laxitude of personal liberty.

تآآني سؤآآل:
What is the speaker's relationship to Amelia?
The relationship between the speaker and “’Melia” (Amelia) has been long-standing, for the first speaker tells us in stanzas 2-5 about how poor and ordinary Amelia had been before she “left us” (line 5). It is clear that Amelia has been gone from the farming community for a considerable time, and that in the interval she has gone into keeping with a wealthy man. Hence she has been “ruined” by conventional social standards even though she is also now well dressed and prosperous. It would be unreasonable to assume that she is not bragging about her new life. We may presume that the first, unnamed, speaker has not heard anything about Amelia because the society in which both live is not literate and for this reason people are not informed about neighbors who no longer are nearby.