I having to write on a poem by Thomas Hardy "The Oxen". I need to know what the significance is about "hoping
Here is the poem...what is the significance of "hoping"in the last line? I googled the heck out of it....I can't find anything about "hoping". Can anyone share some insight?
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel
"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
It's about the animals around the christ child on Christmas Eve; he's saying that he's hoping that the invitation extended would allow him to see him...I think.
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