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In this essay my principle aim is to closely analyse the number of different
techniques used in ‘The Darkling Thrush’ written by Thomas Hardy. I intend to look
very closely at these different techniques, and show how they play a great part in
portraying the many different feelings and emotions that are hidden within each
stanza. This poem has four stanzas, that each have eight lines, it has a regular rhythm
throughout which evokes the feeling that the poem is actually a folk song or a ballad.
It is clearly written through someone’s own personal feelings and experiences
throughout life.
The opening stanza starts with a series of very ominous images, similes and
metaphors, Frost is gray as a ghost, Winter has dregs, the sun is a weakening eye, as
though the day is actually dying etc… This helps to establish the tone, these
descriptions are very bleak; they create the sense of loneliness and depression, almost
as though Hardy is an alien to mankind. ...
‘The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,’
Alliteration is used here which helps create the feeling that Hardy actually felt
trapped; I felt that the bine stems were barbed wire that had been placed around
Hardy’s world stopping him from breaking free.
Approximate Word count = 999
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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