How do both poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ‘Sonnet 29’ and Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’, convey the tone of loss?

In ‘Sonnet 29’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay, loss is a strong underlying theme, referred to generously throughout the poem. This poem has the form of a Shakespearian sonnet which is thought to have meant to challenge her readers’ preconceptions about life. The first ovctave has strong themes of the loss of love while in the last sestet after the volta she is more accepting of this loss.
In the third line, Millay compares love to “beauties passed away”, which is a personification referring to the humiliation of love. ‘Passed away’ could also be a euphemism for death, as death may be considered a word too harsh and blunt to use. This phrase is backed up in the fourth line by “From field to thicket”, which is meant to convey how orderly and well tended the love was at first, later turning into a mess.
In line five, Millay uses pathetic fallecy to compare love and its continually fading power and influence to “the waning of the moon”. Then on line six it says “the ebbing tide goes out to sea”, and this could symbolise a weakening relationship between Millay and a lover as the force pulling the tide decreases which is imagery for the fading love in a relationship. This fading love is emphasized on the two lines below, where Millay blames her partner as this fading love is due to “a man’s desire hushed so soon”, then substantiated further when her husband is said to “no longer look with love” on her. This may be an attempt at a feminist statement as feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes and as she is blaming the man it is as though she could not effect something this large. This phrase, also uses alliteration which could emphasize the repitition of ‘l’ and make one think of lost love and focus on the sound