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Essay type question answer of the darkling thrush

Answer 1

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 

The poem entitled "The Darkling Thrush," written by Thomas Hardy, has 
a very appealing connotation. The work can be separated into two 
parts; the dismal part pertaining to the beginning of winter and the 
second part focusing on one small aspect of good in all of the dismal 
surrounding it. The general idea of the poem is that the dismal winter 
is approaching, but there are some incidences of goodness in this 
depressing time. 

The first part can be sectioned into the first and second stanzas. The 
poem opens with "I leant upon a coppice gate." This is the moment when 
the author enters the small wood and begins to narrate his thoughts 
and feelings. The next line, lines two and three, talk about "The 
frost was specter-gray and winters dregs made desolate." This 
describes that the author feels that during this season, the idea of 
frost and no greenery, makes the winter a very desolate season. The 
fourth line is very interesting. It states "The weakening eye of day." 
This displays that during the winter, the time of day shortens. The 
author relates this shortening of daylight to the weakening of the 
eye. Lines seven and eight also help to describe the desolates of the 
winter months. It states "And all mankind…sought their household 
fires." This line suggests that the narrator views the summer months 
as a time of friendliness and togetherness. During the winter months, 
people close up and seek their homes for warmth. 

The second stanza, which is also considered to be in the first part of 
the poem, depicts the death of the winter months. Lines nine and ten 
seem to convey this thought most clearly. It...