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The Darkling Thrush

Published on Apr 21, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Darkling Thrush

By Thomas Hardy
Photo by Lip Kee

THeme

  • Fear
  • Preserverance

MEtaphors/similes

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

tone

  • glum
  • sad
  • pessimistic
Photo by VanessaO

symbols

  • thrush bird
Photo by Ian N. White

Personification

  • Winter and Frost
  • century's corpse
Photo by blmiers2

Rhyme Scheme

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