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What was the sky like in the Darkling Thrush?

What was the sky like in the Darkling Thrush?

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    According to the speaker, the sky was working as a canopy for the dying century. The simile of the thick tangled stems of the plant as a broken lure scoring the sky added more sadness and sorrow to the speaker’s depression. The sharp features of the land seemed to be the century’s dead body and the cloud as a canopy, was covering up the body.

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