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A Trampwoman's Tragedy
"A Trampwoman's Tragedy" is a 1903 narrative poem in 104 lines by Thomas Hardy. Hardy ranked the poem highly amongst his works,〔 and came to believe that it was "upon the whole his most successful poem."
==Synopsis==
The poem features a homeless "trampwoman" and her three companions, traveling the open road in rural England. Her companions include her lover, whom she calls her "fancy man", another man named Jeering John, and an older woman named Mother Lee. As they're walking along, the trampwoman teases her lover by allowing Jeering John to place his arm around her waist. The group comes to an inn where they stop to rest. The trampwoman continues to tease her lover by sitting next to Jeering John, and then sitting on his lap. Her lover begins to get angry and asks her if the baby she's carrying is his or Jeering John's. She nods to him as if the baby were Jeering John's in order to tease him more. Her lover goes into a rage at this, pulls out a knife, and stabs Jeering John to death. He is later hung for the crime. On the day of his execution the trampwoman has a miscarriage. Mother Lee died before the execution, and so the trampwoman is left all alone. At the end of the poem, as the trampwoman lies under a tree, the ghost of her lover appears to her, asking whether the child was his or not. She tells him that she had never touched another man after they had sworn themselves to each other, and he disappears with a smile. The trampwoman lives on, wandering alone, "haunting the Western Moor." 〔Line 104〕
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