ao4

• Hardy- darkling thrush - 'weakening eye of day'


  Eliot- preludes- 'burnt out ends of smoky days'- portrays the world as useless
• lack of identity- drummer hodge


  eliot- preludes- 'masquerades'
• birds to convey bleak settings- 'aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small'. but has some hope 'evensong'


  eliot-preludes 'sparrows in the gutters'
• faith- Oxen- desire for old faith 'our childhood used to know'


  Eliot- hollowmen- desire/lack of faith- use of fragmented lords prayer
• structure- Hardy Darkling Thrush- begins and ends on sense of darkness, capitalised hope suggests some hope


  Eliot- hollowmen- fragmented structure highlights chaos of modern society, interlocking rhyme scheme DA to tension between faith and doubt
• alienation through setting- Drummer Hodge- name is derogatory, use of foreign diction, constellation imagery


  preludes- 'muddy feet' 'hands' synecdoche- loss of identity in mass culture despite multiple viewpoints
• 'i am not praying at all'- hollowmen- lack of faith, disillusionment with religion