1. What is the most frightening thing in the world? Change. Do you agree?

2. The Darkling Thrush
Tuesday 29th November 2016

3. Today:
We are learning to identify and analyse linguistic and literary techniques in Hardy’s poem.

4. Who is Thomas Hardy?
The Darkling Thrush was written in 1899, just at the turn of the century. Hardy is looking back at the years that have passed and the years that are to come.
Sometimes called a ‘Victorian realist’ – he was influenced by the Romantics but focused a lot of his work on the declining morals and values of rural society.
Hardy uses ‘Romantic’ imagery of nature to describe his bleak world of the future.
Modernism – a style that aims to move from the traditional forms and ideas of the time.
However, his focus is on the isolation and despair of the world towards which he was so critical.
The Boer Wars.
The fall of Christianity – Hardy’s own loss of faith.
The Industrial Revolution – rural to urban.
Hardy paved the way for more modernist writers who followed him. He experimented with form and content and created his own style.

7. What is your response to this poem? What do you think it is about?

8. Identify the rhyme scheme; Identify the metre. LEXIS AND IMAGERY –
FORM AND STRUCTURE –
Identify the rhyme scheme;
Identify the metre.
LEXIS AND IMAGERY –
Pre-modifying adjectives;
Personification;
Lexical field;
Simile
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX –
Sentence mood;
Tone – how is it created?
Foregrounding;
End-focus.
PHONOLOGY-
Consonance;
Sibilance.

9. Experimental vocabulary and its effect.
FORM AND STRUCTURE –
Experimental vocabulary and its effect.
LEXIS AND IMAGERY-
Personification;
Adjectives;
Synecdoche.
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX-
Syndetic pairing;
Foregrounding;
End-focus.
PHONOLOGY-
Alliteration.

10. FORM AND STRUCTURE –
LEXIS AND IMAGERY-
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX-
PHONOLOGY-

11. FORM AND STRUCTURE –
LEXIS AND IMAGERY-
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX-
PHONOLOGY-