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On The Departure Platform
On The Departure Platform
PLATFORM
Thomas Hardy
• The speaker of the poem is the man in love who says good-bye to his girlfriend.
He is telling the story to his friend.
• The place where the action takes place is given in the title: the departure platform.
Just by reading it, we can imagine the story, which will be about people saying
good-bye and leaving.
Analysis of ‘On The Departure
Platform’
In first stanza….