Isolation in Hardy’s poems ‘Nobody Comes’ and ‘The Darkling Thrush’ Essay

In the songs The Darkling Thrush terrestrial dynamical time and Nobody Comes NC, venturous pictures two similar images of isolation. In two(prenominal) poems, the fibree are impoundd from military man company, whilst Hardy explores this using resourcefulness of ghosts and the supernatural in both to a fault. However, separately there are differences in tone although NC ends upon as dire a note as it begins, Hardy engineers an optimistic outlook in TDT and suggests that the eccentrics isolation may notHardy ensures that the component part of TDT is isolated from any other human presence or, until the poems third stanza, any living organism. Whilst leaning over against a liberal touch gate, he notes that all mankind had sought their household fires. Although this is an reading of the low temperature, it is noticeable that the rest of humanity are proveking light in an otherwise dark environment reciprocally, the contribution is deprived of both warmth and living com pany. To further this point, Hardy personifies non-human entities, such as rime and winter Winters dregs, for example. In this way, Hardy makes the commentator fiberl not with living creatures but with in mend entities, isolating the animate persona even more(prenominal).Indeed, Hardy makes such a division more striking by picturing the personas surroundings as very extreme. Surrounded by deathly imagery, the persona imagines the landscape as the Centurys corpse/ His crypt the bedopy,/ The wind his death lament. thus far Hardys animate entities seem ghostly Frost was spectre-gray and mankind haunted nigh. Such is the state of decay that even the old-fashioned pulse of germ and birth was shrunken the regenerative power of life has itself died, deviation the persona as the sole animate existence.A similar bleakness can be seen in NC, especially towards the end of the poem. In the viewing of the car passing, the persona observes, mute by the gate, that he stands again alon e. The sudden silence and soft, finite t sound of mute in contrast to the onomatopoeic whangs amplifies the personas loneliness as does the assoil assonance in the repeated a sound, in alone and again. Equally, the present tense verb stands and again emphasizes that this is an ongoing and repeated state of isolation.However, the persona in Nobody Comes is not simply isolated in foothold of existence physically alone or the sole living creature he is also isolated from modity. Hardy again uses supernatural imagery to explore this. The persona notes that The telegraph wire intones like a apparitional lyre/ Swept by a unearthly hand. Rather than see the telegraph wire as a means of communication, the persona rejects it in presenting an image of disassociation the vagueness of the verb intones summons an image of faceless voices.He also creates negative supernatural connotations there is an innate ghostliness about the obsolete lyre juxtaposed to contrast with the innate moder nity of the telegraph wire which is fortify by the wraithlike spectral. Hardy repeats this for emphasis in spectral hand. In this phrase, he also creates an incongruity between the cover verb swept and noun hand and the abstract concept of ghostliness the hand does not exist. Its invisible presence and visible effects are unnerving, making the modern telegraph wire an unpleasant image.The personas rejection of modernity can be seen also in the depiction of a car coming up. Having shone its aggressive lamps at full glare which Hardy emphasizes by placing at the end of the line the persona states that it has nothing to do with me. This maxim, in being so blunt, is very powerful. It operates to present a rift between the persona and the modern world and, given the unusually colloquial verb whangs, it indicates that the car is viewed as a callous representation of modern life from which the persona wishes to isolate himself. It leaves leaving a blacker air, which may indicate eithe r a corruption of nature (in terms of polluting the otherwise fresh air) or a darkening in the personas emotions. Indeed, the poem concludes with the same negativity, with the invent nobody in both the title and the last line. The persona is leave again alone and isolated, prompting a large amount of kindness from the reader.By contrast, TDT concludes with a hopeful note. At the appearance of the thrush, in the third stanza, the reader notes that the bird is similarly isolated and surrounded by death. In truth, the readers initial reaction to the aged frail, hard up and small thrush is to question whether the creature will survive the bleak conditions. thither is a sense of desperation present flinging its soul/ Upon the growing gloom. However, the persona notices some blessed Hope in the birds quick-witted good-night air. Although unaware of why this may be such wallow illimited is unintelligible to the persona this leads the poem to end in an optimistic fashion. Although b oth the persona and the thrush remain isolated from any other company (the persona fails to deeply associate with the bird) and the anxiety about the future lingers, Hardy does untold to suggest that such deep rooted fervourlessness may change in TDTs persona, as opposed to the ongoing isolation present in NC.