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Poets often write about ideas through exploring emotions. In
light of this comment, examine ways in which poets develop their
ideas through feelings and emotions. You should write about a
least two poems including the darkling thrush or gods grandeur,
or The first 200 words of this essay... Poets often write about
ideas through exploring emotions. In light of this comment,
examine ways in which poets develop their ideas through feelings
and emotions. You should write about a least two poems including
the darkling thrush or gods grandeur, or both. To explore this
comment, I am going to analyse two poems, 'The Darkling Thrush',
by Thomas Hardy, and 'God's Grandeur', by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
In 'The Darkling Thrush', Hardy gives a very negative image. He
uses phrases such as 'when frost was spectre-grey', and ' The
Century's corpse outleant', which give the reader the image of
death. In thi