Techniques In The Darkling Thrush

The image presented is a visual representation of Gwen Harwood’s poem ‘The Violets’. The poem creates the imagery of an adult reflecting on the days they were a child; expressing their yearn to be a child again and their distress at how quickly time goes. Youth, passing of time, memory, life, and death are recurring themes of this poem which are presented through the narrator’s reminiscence of their childhood, and through the motif of a violet. Harwood uses a range of poetry techniques in her poems, and these techniques help convey the different themes and concepts of the poem. The images incorporated in the visual representation were purposely selected to help depict these different themes and concepts. The visual representation works to display Harwood’s poetry style and context through the representation of her poem ‘The Violets.’

In both “Forgetfulness” and “On Turning Ten,” Billy Collins writes in free verse, allowing him the creative freedom to convey his thoughts without the constraints of regular meter and rhyme. Consequently, the speakers of both poems are able to reflect in a stream of consciousness style in order to authentically convey their emotions in regards to the passing of time and the fading of memories. Using free verse, the speakers of “Forgetfulness” and “On Turning Ten” focus on the concept of forgetting, ultimately arguing that remembering would be a much better alternative.

In Emily Dickenson's "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," and in Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night," the poets use imagery of darkness. The two poems share much in common in terms of structure, theme, imagery, and motif. Both poems are five stanzas long: brief and poignant. The central concepts of being "accustomed" to something, and being "acquainted" with something convey a sense of familiarity. However, there are core differences in the ways Dickenson and Frost craft their poems. Although both Dickenson and Frost write about darkness, they do so with different points of view, imagery, and structure.

“Introduction to Poetry” and “Traveling Through the Dark,” are poems written by Billy Collins and William Stafford. The poem’s, “Introduction to Poetry”, main conflict is a teacher who tries to get his students to read and appreciate a poem, but what all the students only care about is figuring out what it means. The conflict is highlighted through the many uses of metaphors to help us understand how he wants the students to look and decipher a poem and how they only focus on finding the meaning instead of taking their time to listen and see the art of poetry. William Stafford’s poem, “Traveling Through the Dark,” describes a driver’s dilemma of deciding whether to throw a dead pregnant deer into the river, or leave it laying on the road where it can cause an accident. In both poems, the use of literary devices such as metaphors, personification, imagery, and diction are effective in making and building up the conflict and reaching the resolution.

Memory is presented as either a way of life or a community of change, as demonstrated in ‘Aspens’, ‘Old Man’, ‘Aldestrop’. He does this through the variety of techniques such as change in form, use of imagery and alternations in the tone of each poem to explore memory. As well as this, Thomas explicates the devastation of emptiness due to the consequence of war, which is portrayed through the use of soft consonantal sounds or the use

When reviewing the work of Dylan Thomas, one can see that he changes his style of language, such as using metaphors and imagery, to fit each poem accordingly. In the poems, "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," and "Fern Hill," which are the poems I will be looking at in this presentation, he uses different techniques and language to make each poem more effective to the reader. I have chosen these works because they are his most well known, I shall start off by reading the poem “Do Not Go Gentle…” even if it was written after Fern Hill, as it is the most famous of all his works. "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" is addressed to Thomas' father, giving him advice

Childhood is a time in which one’s personality begins to be revealed and shaped. Though everyday events in one’s childhood may seem insignificant, these mundane moments will be remembered long into adulthood. These ordinary moments can be seen in a glimpse of Theodore Roethke’s poems. Throughout Roethke’s childhood and adult life, he was exposed to difficult situations. These events significantly impacted his poetry later in his life, and he uses rhythm to express his poem’s themes of grief, nature, and mental illness, along with rhyme and alliteration.

Toward the late 1800’s, Europe was plagued with bad news. They had already reached the prime of their empire and were now on their way to the declination of the continent. Later, people like Adolf Hitler would try to bring it back to its full glory, but for now everything was heading south. As usual, the tone of artistic works followed the success of the empire. Many pieces of art and literature became darker. Even poets such as Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte started to write in a much more serious, somber tone. Their poems started to be drawn to subjects more of things in the past. In Emily Bronte’s Remembrance and Thomas Hardy’s poems The Darkling Thrush and “Ah, are you Digging on My Grave?”, the speakers undergo loss of love, loss of hope, and somber remembrance of things past, respectively.

The immense urgency that fuels the temporal themes resonates in lines from Dylan Thomas’s greatest poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” which, is cited a second time here (the first at his initial launch) as Cooper is on the verge of death from Mann’s betrayal, serve as both the narrative’s commentary and chorus. However, the poem’s exhortation to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is about fighting death and cherishing life, appearing in the narrative at crucial times when time/death is approaching, directed less at the film’s characters than at its present audience - urging all of us watching in our own dying light to do more than passively resign ourselves to imminent

The purpose of this essay is to analyze one of the more popular and well known poems written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." The poem relates to the shortness of life and the inevitability of death that should not be easily accepted, which was a common theme for Dylan Thomas. This is ironic given the poet 's early death from a drunken binge in New York City while he was visiting the United States as part of a tour in which he recited his poems to adoring fans.

In the evening at the fall of the sun, on the edge of a misty lake,

The first section of Hardy’s poem “At Castle Boterel” is just the first stanza and like Heaney’s poem, it sets the scene for extended descriptions of his strong memories. It opens in the present with Hardy “driving to the junction of lane and highway”, both of which are significant to Hardy’s life at the time – the junction indicates Hardy has to make a decision on wheter to move on with his life or stay stuck in the past, the lane signifies his relationship with Emma, and the Highway represents the rest of his life. Pathetic fallacy of the “drizzle” falling on the “wagonette” reflects the sombre, unhappy quality of the present. When Hardy says that he looks “behind” this is symbolic of him about to look back on the time in his life with Emma. The adjective “fading” conveys the fact that despite the fact that the forthcoming memory is strong, things are fading in his head due to old age.

William Shakespeare's sonnet cycle is famous with its rich metaphorical style.  The depth of each sonnet comes from its multilayered meanings and images, which are reinforced by its structure, sound, and rhythm.  Sonnet #73 provides an excellent example.  This sonnet shows the speaker's agony over human mortality and, moreover, his/her way of coping with it in an effective way.  The speaker, especially in terms of his cognizance of time, experiences dramatic changes in two ways: (1) from time measured by quantity to time as quality,  (2) from cyclical time to a linear one.  These changes, manifested by a set of images (autumn, twilight, glowing), enable him/her to embrace

Thomas Wyatt’s poem of They flee from me provides the central theme of time in two different ways, how time is perceived through the eyes of the speaker and how

Hardy’s poems are straight to the point and sometimes gloomy in outlook. In this poem he finds a source of hope when a thrush suddenly starts to sing.