Question

note of the use of imagery in the poem 'The Darkling Thrush' by Hardy. Which prominent figures of speech are used by the poet to enrich the poem?​

Answer 1

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Because of its themes of renewal, life in darkness, and finding joy when circumstances seem dire, "The Darkling Thrush" contains many examples of powerful and expressive imagery. One good example comes in the first lines:

I leant upon a coppice gate

When Frost was spectre-gray,

And Winter's dregs made desolate

The weakening eye of day.

"Spectre-gray" likens the frost and dusk of the day to a spectre, or ghost. This gives it a foreboding aspect, as if the frost is a malevolent force instead of simple cold. As the day ends, its "eye" (the sun) weakens; the spectre of the frost is fighting against the day's eye and forcing it to close.

In the next verse, the narrator refers to the land as seemingly-dead, with:

His crypt the cloudy canopy,

The wind his death-lament.

Both of these lines show the world as a living creature that is being slowly killed by the darkening days and encroaching frost. The clouds overhead are the canopy adorning a crypt, while the wind sings a funeral dirge in the world's honor.

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,

In blast-be ruffled plume,

Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom.

The thrush is the spirit of life, the last color in the graying world. It is tiny, especially compared to the enormity of Winter, but it gives all of itself that it has. By "flinging his soul" into the night and celebrating his own small life, the thrush gives hope to others and allows the narrator to see that there might be something further down the road; while the Winter is harsh, it is not the literal end of the world, as the thrush has now affirmed.

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Answer 2

"The Darkling Thrush" contains numerous instances of strong and expressive symbolism.

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• As a result of its topics of recharging, life in murkiness, and finding euphoria when conditions appear to be critical, "The Darkling Thrush" contains numerous instances of strong and expressive symbolism.
• Its pondering tone, utilization of normal symbolism to make and address human temperaments and sentiments, and straightforward rhyme conspire are unpretentious and strong.
• The symbolisms utilized in the sonnet are generally through illustrations and metaphors. The writer then looks at the sky as a covering. He says that the land turns into a guide of all that has occurred throughout the hundred years. It appears to epitomize the dead 100 years.
• The sharp elements of the land appear to be the Century's dead body and the cloud fills in as a shade concealing the body. The metaphor of the thick "tangled bine stems" taking off the sky as a messed up lyre adds more to the writer's distress and pain around him.

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