"Who wrote the poem ""The Darkling Thrush""? He is better known as a classic novelist?"
The Darkling Thrush The Darkling Thrush "The Darkling Thrush" is a poem by Thomas Hardy. Originally titled ""By the Century's Deathbed, 1900", it was published on 29 December 1900 in "The Graphic". A deleted '1899' on the poem's manuscript suggests that it may have been written the year before. It was later included in a collection entitled "Poems of the Past and the Present" (1901). The first stanzas open with a description of the dreary, bleak winter landscape, but the melancholy tone is transformed by the bright, optimistic singing of "an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small." In the end, the speaker concludes
A Darkling Plain This relates to the novel in several ways. The characters are indeed swept about, often against their will, by the "ignorant armies" of the Green Storm and Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, on the "darkling plain" of the Great Hunting Ground. Reeve references his choice of title himself towards the end of the book when the character Nimrod Pennyroyal writes a book within a book titled "Ignorant Armies". The similarly titled, "As on a Darkling Plain", by Ben Bova in 1972 also takes its title from this poem. Six months after the events of Infernal Devices, General Naga, the now-leader of the Green Storm