DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:  "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy I remember doing an analysis of this poem when I was in college, and even though it has been a while, I think my analysis is still the same.  Well, not really. In my past analysis, I focused on how the thrush was the focus of the poem -- the poem is titled as such and the big "event" in this poem centers around the thrush.  However, my interpretation now is that the thrush, like it's song, is just a ruse. But the form first.  The poem is written in an alternate rhyme scheme (ababcdcd) in four octaves -- there's some balance at play here between the speaker, the landscape and the thrush.  The introduction though focuses on the speaker and the landscape, "I leant upon a coppice gate / When Frost was spectre gray,"  Note that introduction of the speaker is interacting with the landscape which opens up to the season, "And Winter's dregs made desolate / The weakening eye of day."  And...