This poem describes how "The ancient pulse of germ and birth / Was shrunken hard and dry" and tells of how all the other spirits on earth "Seemed fervourless as I.
This poem describes how "The ancient pulse of germ and birth / Was shrunken hard and dry" and tells of how all the other spirits on earth "Seemed fervourless as I." It compares a crypt to a "cloudy canopy" and the wind to a "death-lament" in a metaphor between the landscape and the corpse of the century, referring to the end of the Victorian era in the 1800s. Even though "all mankind Had sought their household fires" and there was "So little cause for carolings," this poem's title figure emits a "full-hearted (*) evensong / Of joy illimited," choosing to "fling his soul / Upon the growing gloom." Beginning by describing a "spectre-grey" frost and the speaker leaning "upon a coppice gate," this poem's titular bird is described as "frail, gaunt, and small," and "In blast-beruffled plume." For 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Hardy.
This poem describes how "The ancient pulse of germ and birth / Was shrunken hard and dry" and tells of how all the other spirits on earth "Seemed fervourless as I.
"The Darkling Thrush"