What Is The Theme Of Darkling By Thomas Hardy

     Frost?s poem delves deeper into the being and essence of life with his second set of lines. The first line states, ?Her early leaf?s a flower.? After the budding and sprouting, which is the birth of nature, is growth into a flower. This is the moment where noon turns to evening, where childhood turns into maturity, and where spring turns into summer. At this very moment is the ripe and prime age of things. The young flower stands straight up and basks in the sun, the now mature teenager runs playfully in the light, and the day and sunlight peak before descending ever so quickly into dusk. The second line of the second set states, ?But only so an hour,? which makes clear that yet again time is passing by and that a beginning will inevitably have an end.

Frost uses symbolism in the word in the first line of the first stanza in ‘yellow’ of the wood. This symbolises the season autumn and the autumnal time in ones life where time is running out and decisions need to be made, this demonstrates

Frost continues in his poem metaphorically by showing spring is as lovely as a flower as in the line “Her early

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

Through examining Hemans’ The Grave of a Poetess in the context of broader romantic-literature, it becomes increasingly evident that the early 19th century writer imbibes the destabilising qualities of the elegiac tradition to reimagine her work in accordance with a newly feminized romanticism. By resisting the seductive pull of focalising one specific tradition, as reflected by critics’ approbation for her ‘innate sense of balance’(Rudy 547), Hemans’ disassociation of life and death and her infusion of detached reason and unfettered passion seems to suggest that the romantic-era traits found within this poem serve only an extrinsic purpose; potentially in eschewing the androcentric demarcations of the literary epoch in favour of a transgressive, necromantic model of gynocentric creativity.

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

In this poem, ‘The Man He Killed’, the poet Thomas Hardy explores a complex theme, which is war, using the simplest language. Throughout this essay I will be discussing the thoughts and opinions Hardy has on war.

is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The

The night symbolized death, and the walk was the person's journey to find their lost life. This poem was somewhat disturbing to me. I thought of a lost soul, thirsting to finish a mission that was not completed in life. Frost depicts death in a frightening manner with the contents of this piece of work.

Title Piano represents music, which is used to convey all sorts of emotions. Paraphrase Stanza 1) The author remembers his mother's singing, which brings back his memories from childhood. Stanza 2) As the emotions overflow, he recalls details from his past.

Frost uses personification by giving "Truth" human-like qualities such as interrupting the speaker. This personification alerts the reader that "Truth," or reality is a major part of the theme of this poem, by giving it

Therefore, in the second stanza “Too dark in the woods for a bird,” (line 5), he uses this imagery to express that even birds cannot live in the woods because of how much darkness is present. Birds singing resemble happiness, and the woods and its darkness are showing two scenes contradicting each other, showing in some way the deeper meaning beyond the literal one. Another symbol used by Frost was light, symbolizing hope: “The last of the light of the sun.” In this line he gives a clue to the reader expressing how even though it was dark, there could still be a chance for light to come in those woods for some hope and maybe

Then at least life would not be so random and man would have some kind of notion of what to expect. Instead the Fates are responsible for our sorrow, not because they take pleasure in doing so, but because they are "partly blind" and do so for no reason. In the last two lines Hardy writes that "These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown / Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain."(13-14) For Hardy, the sorrow and pain are that much worse because they could have just as easily been joy and bliss. Instead of finding some kind of purpose or reason, Hardy sees only a universe ruled by the laws of nature. It has been said that Hardy was influenced by Darwin and perhaps this poem records Hardy's troubled response to Evolutionary Theory. The scientific advances of the time were a direct contradiction to the Christian God with whom Hardy was raised. This was probably very frightening and confusing. In Hap Hardy longs for the time of his youth, a more innocent time with the universe controlled by a benevolent higher power.<p>

In the second stanza the fact that Frost does not often stop to admire the splendour of nature because of the callings of his duties is clearly conveyed when he writes that his "little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near"; the horse is a creature of habit and is unused to change in its life, the horse could be viewed as a symbol for the mundane and repetitive life Frost leads in society. It is also sad to note that the horse, a creature free and noble creature when in the wild is so accustomed to civilisation that it does not recognise the beauty of nature, its own habitat and can only think of reaching a "farmhouse near." Although here Frost is within the forest and within nature his dutiful mind

is our job to search it out. In the case of the poem, the narrator now