Analysis of the Poem: The Darkling Thrush Essay

Speaker The speaker system in the first two stanzas is visualized as pessimistic and downcast, but this changed in the two last stanzas. In any(prenominal) case, the speaker is conveyed to have strong feelings for genius. Form Rhyming scheme is clear visible giving to poem a rhythm. The 3rd stanzas rhyming scheme seems to have been modified, if not a little disturbed having a not as good phonetic wind uping at the end of each stanza conveying the speakers disturbance and surprise at the appearance of the thrush.ImageryL.1 the coppice became a gate conveying that its not in its raw(a) state, humans could have modified it. L2 When icing the puck was spectre-grey a spectre/ghost is something dangerous, handsacing, conveying rime is dangerous, and cold is dangerous, deadly. The Frost being as cold as a ghost. L2-3 Frost and wintertime with capital letters, this personifies them. Cold, winter, end theme introduced. They will be the two primary(prenominal) characters of the poem. L3 Winters dregs winters residue, conveys the s instantly. L3-4 Winters dregs do desolate, The weakening eye of day The snow is taking over the day, dark over light. Eye of day conveys the sun symbolizing light, happiness, warmth, is being interpreted over by Winters dregs darkness, snow, cold. L5-6 The tangled bine-stems pockd the dispose, uniform strings of rugged lyres this simile compares plants that are reaching for the sky, worry broken lyres, lyres are instruments symbolizing usually illusion, and mostly the instruments of the gods. Lyres are therefor in the sky with the gods, and the plants are trying to do the same, but will neer reach it Broken Lyres or broken illusions.This simile conveys somehow the sky in tell to earth, heaven, and hell that plants are trying to flee score the sky. L7-8 And all mankind that haunted nigh all the men that were hunting close by, Had sought their standhold fires had gone back to their ho economic consumption by the fire for w armth. Winter, or death, is more mighty than men with guns. L9 The regions calculating features seemed to be sharp here conveys the cold. This verse introduces the nature or land as main theme of the stanza. L9-10 The lands sharp features seemed to be the lands cold features seemed to be The Centurys mud outleant the Centurys dead body. This metaphor connects the two verses and develops them unless in doing so. The lands features are now clearer to convey members like body members.This metaphor also connects the land to the Centurys dead body the speaker here could also convey his thoughts that our endue Century is last. L11-12 His crypt the muddied canopy This verse conveys the transformation of the cloudy canopy, the unclear, somber conveying menace canopy (human being afraid of the unknown) into a crypt, chamber for the dead. Once again the death (here of nature specifically) is here conveyed. This continues the metaphor of the dying land by his asserting a personific ation of the land. This verse transforms the cloudy canopy into the chamber of death crypt of the land. Finally, to finish the portraying image of a dead body in a crypt, the image of a funeral is clear conveyed through and through the 12th verse. The wind his death-lament. This image portrays the wind as the relative, or witness, grieving the lands death.L13-14 The ancient pulse of hemipteran and parenthood the verse bring through the image of a pulse of life, that is now no more ancient used to be, but no long-lived is. Was shrunken hard and dry this continuation of the verse beforehand confirms the death of the pulse of germ and birth, of life, that was shrunken hard and dry that was killed by winter. The use of shrunken hard and dry contrasting the pulse of germ and birth is real well chosen. The pulse of germ and birth is something soft, glad, promising, whereas the use of shrunken shrinks the promising life, turns it into something hard and dry. The contrast of life and death is portrayed here through nature.L15-16 And every sense of smell upon earth seemed fervourless as I This conveys the desperation and wishlessness that seems to be shared by every touch upon this earth the whole world seems to have no more hope for better days. With these two last verses, it leaves the second stanza on sorrowful fervourless tone. L16-17 At once a voice arose among the bleak twigs overhead The 3rd stanza starts glowering with an element of surprise, raising the curiosity of the reader creating suspense of who this might be, or what. This also somehow creates a certain feeling of hope. The 3rd stanza also starts of unlike the other first stanzas through hearing, and not seeing. Therefor the images that were up to now conveyed through the eyes, is not conveyed through the ears.L19-20 In full-hearted evensong of bliss unlimited this element brings about hope and joy which was not brought through so far. L21-22 An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and smallish, in bl ast-be undulate plume The suspense is now broken, we go on out what this element of surprise and joy is, a chick, a Thrush like indicated in the poems title. The sense goes back to seeing now, and the sibilation is portrayed as frail, gaunt, and small in contrast to the merciless powerful cold winter and death that was conveyed beforehand transforming an entire land into corpse, and just this bird is full of joy and life unlike every spirit on earth. The birds appearance is further more explicit in verse 22 In blast-beruffled plume This feeds further the contrast between the bird and the harsh winter. Indeed the thrush is not only(prenominal) portrayed as markedly frail, but the sharp wind has ruffled his feathers, and we can imagine the tail-feathers blown nearly inside-out by the sharp blast.L23-24 These verses are very important as they mark another contrast between the birds appearance, and character. Indeed this feeble blast-beruffled bird that was conveyed earlier on had chosen thus to fling his soul upon the developing gloom This small bird is like a brave small weak, and hitherto brave soldier flinging his soul into the midst of a battle, upon a growing gloom that menaces to kill him at any moment. The 3rd stanza brings through an element of hope and surprise.L25-29 The senses are now changed into hearing again as the speaker describes the carolings of the little bird that seems to light up terrestrial things afar or nigh around (near or far) into this growing gloom that the speaker doesnt seem to understand.L30-32 The final 3 verses of the last stanza are very important as they will change the view of the speaker. Indeed the happy good night air of this bird some blessed trust which is conveyed to be brought through to the speaker by this thrush whereof he knew, and I was unconscious(predicate) The speaker here conveys the relief and comfort and wisdom that was brought to him through the natural wisdom and bravery as well as optimism of this feeble and delicate, yet brave, and tenacious thrush.On this the poem ends on a good pure tone full of hope and optimism for the future.