How does Hardy strikingly convey his feelings to you in The Darkling Thrush? The Darkling Thrush is a poem written by Thomas Hardy, describing his feelings at the turn of the century. I really sympathise with his description of his emotions at the end of a year, and he does this effectively through his description of the scenery, his description of the thrush, and how he describes himself during the poem. Hardy uses the landscape to describe his emotions in this poem, a technique called pathetic fallacy. I think that this is very effective, because he strongly conveys feelings of death, depression and He uses a lot of deathly imagery to describe the scenery, which makes me think of a very sombre, sad and gloomy scene.
One of the themes in Poe's "The Raven" that highlights the gothic genre is alienation and loneliness. This is a result of the speaker's loss of Lenore. The beginning of the poem establishes the speakers isolation and vulnerability and his mental state of mind. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Alliteration of w in “while,” “weak,” and “weary” produces the effect of unsteadiness. The sound of the "w's" used supports the sense of the reader's lack of energy.
The poem begins with a forlorn and heartbroken narrator suffering from both physical and emotional pain, ‘So haggard and woebegone’ (l 6). His situation is clear from the very first line, when a stranger finds him out in the forest and can tell just by looking at him that something is gravely wrong. The stranger appears to be a beautiful maiden. She sees how pale the knight is and appears to feel sympathy for him and becomes love-struck.
I’m sure that any of you have ever felt that when you are sad you see this sadness reflected on the environment, especially when it starts to rain, or the sky is cloudy and gray. Most of the Frost’s poems show how nature is linked to human emotions. For example, in the poem “Tree at my Window” the speaker expresses the connection between him and the tree outside. He describes it as a close friend who can understand him, and it is a silent witness of his life, and all the problems that he faces. In the third stanza, we read But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed, And if you have seen me when I slept, You have seen me when I was taken and swept And all but lost (9-12) Here the speaker expresses that he has witnessed how the tree has been tossed by the stormy weather, in the same way that the tree has witnessed those negative moments lived by the speaker, the tree is a kind of figure of a silent friend who is always there to hear him any time he needs alleviation to all his problems.
As “Words” is a tribute to language, the structure must be as unpredictable as its subject is. One of the principal techniques Thomas uses is the anthropomorphism of words. The first stanza establishes his unique view on them; the language used to personify their qualities result in equality between man and language. A similar notion appears again in “As the winds use/ A crack in a wall”: again personification is used to humble the human in comparison with nature and language in an attempt for us to augment our respect. This particular line alludes to Shelly’s “Ode to the West Wind”: “Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is”.
Wordsworth’s conveying of ideas which were fundamental to the Romantic era depicts his poetry as being influenced to a great extent. Being one with nature is explored by Wordsworth’s in his revealing poem titled ‘The Daffodils’. From the very first line of his renowned masterpiece Wordsworth captivates his audience with the simile “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The comparison of his self to an incredibly isolated aspect of nature is made use of to set the overarching tone of the poem from the beginning. Furthermore, this comparison makes obvious to the responder that he considers himself to be one with nature.
According to his situation at the time, purposeless and loneliness is something he could have felt. Using similes and personification to illustrate the beauty and the connection of the daffodils to mankind, William gives us an understanding of his passion and his deep emotions for nature. In the last stanza William suggests that when he is in an unpleasant mood the image of the daffodils “flashes” through his mind. “And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the Daffodils” explains that the daffodils are his portal to a happier state of mind. Thus, showing how nature can have an effect on a human and their emotions.
The WoodSpurge The Woodspurge is one of the most emotional and “feelings full” poem I have read, it has those factors such as emotions and feelings that of a living creature, even narrower a Human’s perspective, he puts his feelings into all sorts of words that rhyme and go together so well, that it makes it so special and so interesting and full of mixed feelings, and it has an entire sub story behind it which is all about the love the sadness, solitude and heartbreak, and its about being calm, sitting in nature, nothing happening, a moment to notice the flower that changed him, which cannot be seen with so many things going on. The poem’s first paragraph was about how everything was still, everything was dead, on how he didn’t want life, as there was no life, he sat because he was tired, he wasn’t bothered, he was bored, sad, emotional, he is expressing himself in the words of sadness, Loneliness, Boredom and hollowness . The Second Paragraph was all about how he was all curled up scared, terrified or even hollow, he was explaining how he was just there, in a lonely world, with only him, where he Wants to be alone, it explains how with all the time he was alone or with any of the events that have passed him such as a break up, a sad loss from a person so close or even far, it explains that all, as he said “my lips drawn in” on how he felt sober, small, weak that he drew them in like what a person about to cry would do, and that’s how he’s expressing the sad feeling inside him, the tears that will flow down are stopped this way, Also he said his ears were naked which heard the day pass, it expresses the loneliness he was in, the boredom the emptiness the dullness, it all leads up to this, as in how he used those to express himself. “My eyes Wide Open, had the run” It explains and backs up the theory of him crying, on how they were “wide open” looking right
He then moves on and recounts the sounds of water lapping and crickets singing. Following that he depicts the midnight’s glimmer, the moons glow and the evenings full of linnets’ wings. I believe that William Butler Yeats’ main intention in writing this poem is to encourage readers to reflect the peace that the character is longing for to their own lives. I also sense that the character in this story is expressing Yeats’ actual feelings about his own longing for peace. Likewise, I feel that the character’s desire to be on the Isle of Innisfree and to create life by growing plants and living free is one of the most overlooked and important aspects in human existence.
Literary criticism theories such as Marxism, feminism, new historicist and many more, helps the reader to interpret and understand the text. New Historic theory is used to look at the history of the poet and the critic itself to understand the meaning behind the poem. Tragic love is the theme of the poem, and it shows the reader that love was not fulfilled between the two people. One did not accept the love of another. One can consider that “She was too kind” is the greatest poem ever because when one understand the history of the poem between the poet and Eliza, it can be determined that the poet used imagery, repetition and alliteration to convey the tragic love between Miss Savage and the poet himself.