The Analysis of Imagery and Fi
Analyzing elements of poetic style is generally accepted as one method of exploring a poet?s ideas and beliefs. How someone perceives the world is revealed in the way they speak. A poet?s attitudes toward what poetry can and should be attempting to communicate are exhibited in style. In other words, the voice, use of images and figurative language determines how a poem is read and reveals what is being said. I have selected Hardy?s ?The Darkling Thrush? as a representative poem for this discussion. ?The Darkling Thrush? is a poem occasioned by the beginning of a new year and a new century. A movement of subject is apparent in the first two stanzas from an observation of a winter landscape as perceived by an individual speaker to a terrible vision of the death of an era that the landscape seems to disclose. The action of the poem lies in the apprehension of this particular moment of seeing changes as the emotional impact as the scene solidifies. The diction here is simple and direct, and the tone is the quiet voice of private conversation. The spectral quality of ?Frost? is accurate in suggesting a s
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Darkling Thrush, , weakening eye, growing gloom, darkling thrush, hard dry, speakers emotions, centurys corpse, poem speaker, real world, vision death, winters dregs,
Approximate Word count = 1579
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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