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The most persistent symbolism in Hardy is connected with birds. Its significance varies, but its main theme is human happiness and suffering. The happy notes are sometimes ironical, like those heard by Bathsheba when she found herself by a pestilential swamp the morning after discovering Troy’s perfidy (FMC. xliv).
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Pinion, F.B. (1968). Towards Symbolism. In: A Hardy Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00481-2_9
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