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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
The Darkling Thrush
"The Darkling Thrush" is the title of a song by THOMAS HARDY. Does "darkling" mean "night" or "sad"? Thus, Does the title mean "the sad thrush" or "the thrush of night"?
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Have you read the poem? Note these lines: I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day . So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
- Have you read the poem?
- Note these lines: I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day .
- So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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Have you read the poem? Note these lines:
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
...
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial thi
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
...
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial thi
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Thank you! So, it definitely means "the thrush of night". What made me think about it was a published translation of the poem in Persian under the title of "the sad thrush". I think the writer might have been mistaken. What's your idea?
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