Happy song Sweet Hope

Happy Song, Sweet Hope
¨DThe Contrast of ¡°The Darkling Thrush¡± and ¡°Ode to a Nightingale¡±


Ò»¡¢ Introduction
Thomas Hardy¡¯s ¡°The Darkling Thrush¡± is one of famous lyrical. It was written on Dec.31, 1899, the last day of the 19th century. The end of a year and the end of a century arouses in all men deep and often sad reflections and the external world merges with the poet¡¯s melancholy. The poem is a moving record of a man¡¯s tragic vision of ¡°terrestrial things¡±. The vocabulary and imagery of the poem are directed mainly toward creating a sense of the bleakness and sadness of the winter landscape. Although it is sad in tone about the background the poem carries some hope towards future because ¡°a voice arose among/ The bleak twigs overhead/ In a full-hearted evensong/ Of joy illimited¡±. The voice is an aged thrush¡¯s happy song. The song of the thrush is a sign of hope in this desolate time. The thrush is the symbol of the mature. ...