Following poetic devices have been used in the poem, “The Darkling Thrush”:-

1. Metaphor:- it refers to any word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing without asserting a comparison. Here it has been used to describe the setting of the winter sun and the day coming to an end by saying, “weakening eye of the day.” Also while describing the thrush’s zeal for life the poet says, “fling his soul.”

2. Alliteration:- it is for the lyrical musicality of the poem since it refers to the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. In some lines the consonant ‘c’ has been stressed like “his crypt the clpudy canopy” or in lines like “That I could think there trembled through” the consonant ‘t’ has been stressed.

3. Simile:- it is an elaborate comparison is made between two distinctly different things, and it is explicitly indicated by the word ‘like’ or ‘as.’  Over here, by saying “The tangled bine stems scored the sky/ Like strings of broken lyre” the poet adds more to the sadness and grief around him.

4. Symbolism:- it is applied only to a phrase or a word that represents an event or an object which in its turn signifies something, or suggests a range of reference, beyond itself. The poet says “The land’s sharp features seemed to be/ The century’s corpse outleant.” He says how the land, undergone throughout the century, is dying and reflecting the dying century in turn.

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Klausner believed that there are many odd inaudible sounds that cannot be perceived by humans. In order to prove his hypothesis, he invented a sound machine through which he could actually hear the sounds that arose from plants, when they were being cut. He even requested Mrs. Saunders to cut another yellow rose so that he could confirm himself that he indeed could hear the sounds of the plants. He again experimented on his theory with some daisies and heard a piercing shriek come from the machine. He kept on inflicting pain on the plants, despite regretting all his actions, just to prove himself, and also the doctor, that he could indeed hear the sounds coming from the plants.

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Salvatore felt very happy in the company of his sons. Sometimes he used to bring his children down to give them a bath. They sprawled about at the the water’s edge stark naked and Salvatore standing on a rock would dip them in the water. Salvatore had enormous hands, like legs of mutton, coarse and hard from constant toil but when he bathed his children, holding them so tenderly, drying them with delicate care as if they were flowers. When he laughed with his children, his laugh was like the laughter of an angel and his eyes then were as candid as his child’s.

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Perhaps the alternate ending of the story could be something like when Jayanto saw the twelve-inch-long, perfectly white human skeleton in the ground, he could actually remember that Fritz was not actually a toy but a boy. His sub-conscious mind had created a toy for the small boy from his childhood due to some mishap that had occurred.

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In the short story, The Story of an Hour, the doctors had said that Mrs. Mallard died “of the joy that kills.” The characters believed that Mrs. Mallard was so happy to see her husband alive and healthy that those strong emotions were too much for her. However, we the readers know the real reason for her death. Mrs. Mallard did not really die out of joy but of shock on seeing her husband alive. She was ecstatic at her husband’s death and when she saw him alive it was the sudden shock on her happiness that killed her. Here, Louise’s momentary joy caused her death.
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