The Darkling Thrush

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173590

THeme

• Fear
• Preserverance

MEtaphors/similes

• The tangled bine-stems scored the sky like strings of broken lyres.

tone

• glum
• sad
• pessimistic

symbols

• thrush bird

Personification

• Winter and Frost
• century's corpse

Rhyme Scheme

• The ancient pulse of germ and birth/ Was shrunken hard and dry/and every spirit upon earth/seemed fervourless as I.

secondary source

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs