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Is The Darkling Thrush an elegy?

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    “The Darkling Thrush” might be considered as an elegy to some extent as the poet is indeed sad and lonely with news of the century coming to an end, though he expresses no direct sorrow and neither does he bemoans the inevitability. This poem is more like an ode, addressing a particular subject.

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