#POETIC DUSK FULL#

The poem is short enough to be reproduced in full here:ДЄlluring, Earth seducing, with high conceits Few poets before Hulme had thought to compare the red sunset to the naked flesh of a mistress of King Charles II, but the unusual simile only makes his poem all the more arresting and his description of the evening sunset вЂ“ as seen by a London-dweller вЂ“ even more visceral and vivid. Hulme wrote as an illustration of what he thought modern English poetry should be, following the French vers libre (or free verse) model. However, Housman seems to have borrowed the phrase from ShakespeareвЂ™s Macbeth (вЂThe gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day / Is crept into the bosom of the seaвЂ™) вЂ“ but what he does with the phrase is quite arresting and memorable here.ДЄlong with his more famous poem вЂAutumnвЂ™, this was one of the first two poems T. The last line of the poem gave Colin Dexter the title of his final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day in the books, Housman is MorseвЂ™s favourite poet. Okay, so the first two stanzas of this poem address the morning and daytime, but itвЂ™s for the sublime final stanza that weвЂ™ve included this poem here. Housman, вЂ How clear, how lovely brightвЂ™.

A thrush appears, and sings so joyfully that the speaker is convinced that the bird knows something he does not вЂ“ that the thrush singing in the twilight knows of brighter days to come.Д¦.

The poemвЂ™s speaker leans upon a woodland gate and views the land around him as a symbol of the events of the nineteenth century, the вЂCenturyвЂ™s corpse outleantвЂ™ the speaker is made a part of the scene, not just a detached observer, as вЂoutleantвЂ™ echoes the speakerвЂ™s own action at the start of the poem (вЂI leant upon a coppice gateвЂ™). This classic Hardy poem captures the mood of a winter evening as the sun, вЂthe weakening eye of dayвЂ™, sets below the horizon and gives way to dusk on New YearвЂ™s Eve.

Poetic dusk