Question

1. "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
What word best describes the mood of this poem? (1 point)
gloomy
humorous
joyful
regretful

Answer 1

upbeat
sinister
laudable
butyraceous

Answer 2

Huh?

Answer 3

did you even read the poem?

Answer 4

I didn't. I don't have the time. All of my work is due today and I still have a lot of assignments to complete. My dad passed in january so I missed a ton of school.

Answer 5

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.

Answer 6

it'll take you 3 mins

Answer 7

joyful?

Answer 8

the thrush is, the poet and the mood of the poem aren't, they're dark and gloomy
words like bleak and death-lament pepper it

Answer 9

so i'd go with gloomy, give he's still talking about bleak twigs even while the thrush is singing

Answer 10

thanks

Answer 11

all good, sorry about ur fam