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The Darkling Thrush
This poem “The Darkling Thrush” is pesimistic. Through the bleakness of the landscape, the poem is reflecting on theturn of the century, and the poets reaction to the songbird, “The Darkling Thrush” shows Hardy’s concern with time, change, and remorse. ...
“A Darkling Thrush” depicts the setting of one century and the birth of another through his eyes. ... When the darkling thrush arrives in a burst of joyous song following a lively enjambment on “At once a voice arose among/The bleak twigs overhead” (17-18), the poet refuses to be comforted. Instead, he takes care to note that it is an “aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small/In blast-beruffled plume” (21-22). ... Alliteration on “That I could think there trembled through” (29) suggests that the narrator ponders the thrush’s song gravely, keeping in mind his own plight.
Approximate Word count = 618 Approximate Pages = 2.5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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