THE DARKLING THRUSH
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- Created on: 30-04-16 20:29
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- THE DARKLING THRUSH
- KEY QUOTES
- "The land's sharp features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant".
- METAPHOR & SIMILE
- "The ancient pulse of germ and birth/Was shrunken hard and grey".
- METAPHOR
- "At once a voice arose among/The bleak twigs overhead".
- "An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,/In blast-beruffled plume,/Had chosen thus to fling his soul,/Upon the growing gloom".
- PLOSIVES - wind through feathers.
- "Fling his soul" - METAPHOR.
- "Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew/And i was unaware."
- "The land's sharp features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant".
- CONTEXT
- Written at the turn of the century "Century's corpse".
- Since the spread of Darwinism, many had been rejecting the traditional idea of religion (the beginning of the Modernist movement).
- Since the industrial revolution, nature had been partially destroyed and many had lost "Hope".
- LANGUAGE & IMAGERY
- PERSONIFICATION of the "land" and "Century" reflects the regret the narrative voice has that the century is a "corpse" - through many of his poems Hardy exhibits both Modernist views while seeming bitter towards the change (i.e. 'The Oxen').
- CONTEXT
- Written at the turn of the century "Century's corpse".
- Since the spread of Darwinism, many had been rejecting the traditional idea of religion (the beginning of the Modernist movement).
- Since the industrial revolution, nature had been partially destroyed and many had lost "Hope".
- CONTEXT
- The "Voice" may be a METAPHOR for God - again showing Hardy's struggle with religion.
- Also a METAPHOR for God, the "Hope" that the narrative voice is "unaware" of shows the antithesis Hardy creates between Modernism and religion.
- "The ancient pulse of germ and birth" shows Hardy's fear of time (also clear in 'A Broken Appointment' among others) and emphasises the eternity of life and death - an unbreakable cycle.
- PERSONIFICATION of the "land" and "Century" reflects the regret the narrative voice has that the century is a "corpse" - through many of his poems Hardy exhibits both Modernist views while seeming bitter towards the change (i.e. 'The Oxen').
- STRUCTURE & FORM
- Regular ABAB rhyme scheme.
- Easy/ traditional - contrasts with the content of his poetry.
- Increases tension of the poem - untrustworthy speaker?
- Easy/ traditional - contrasts with the content of his poetry.
- Iambic pentameter throughout.
- Easy/ traditional - contrasts with the content of his poetry.
- Increases tension of the poem - untrustworthy speaker?
- Easy/ traditional - contrasts with the content of his poetry.
- Regular ABAB rhyme scheme.
- KEY QUOTES
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