Question

urgent Do you think the mood of the speaker in Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" changes because of the thrush's song? pls help medal will be awarded to whoever can help

Answer 1

@LoveIt @saucvi pls help me

Answer 2

Apologies, I have not read "The Darkling Thrush".

Answer 3

No worries

Answer 4

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 5

that one?

Answer 6

yes mam
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Answer 7

any ideas?

Answer 8

well what do you think?

Answer 9

I think yes, the mood does change because of the evening song

Answer 10

then I would agree

Answer 11

okay thank you