Critical 3-30-12

I think in Thomas Hardy's poem "Hap", he is stating that if some else decided his life for him and told him you are suffering for my pure enjoyment then maybe that would be alright. Then he turns around and wonders why someone did something to his joy, "how arrives it joy lies slain", I think what Hardy is trying to say about pain is if you never knew anything else then it would be no different. When talking about gladness he is saying that you are always developing new happiness. But if you were never to know happiness then you would not be searching for new or better happiness and therefore you wouldn't have to go through pain in between. I would relate Hap to Hardy's poem Neutral Tones because to me they both have this dark, sad, depressing kind of feel to them when I read them. Neutral Tones is about a break up and Hap is about pain .So in a sense they are both about similar feelings.