Preternatural Landscapes in Hardy’s Darkling Thrush and Yushij’s It is Night

Abstract

This piece of research studies Thomas Hardy’s “Darkling Thrush” and Nima Yushij’s “It is Night” and highlights some of the avant-garde strategies these writers have used in their poems. It analyzes these works’ diction and figurative and symbolic language which are used as devices to elucidate and depict the speakers’ subjective states through natural landscapes. Through utilizing a comparative approach the paper examines the similarities between two poems to suggest that Nima Yushij’s familiarity with the symbolist trends and innovative approaches of Thomas Hardy, inspired him to model his Modernist Movement in Persian poetry after Hardy’s style.