What is the author's style in The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy?

Personification is a trope, one of the two major divisions of figures of speech. To personify something is to give human qualities to inanimate things. Hardy does this throughout the poem, describing twilight as the "weakening eye of day" and the landscape as "The Century's corpse." Personification allows him to paradoxically make the land "come alive" while at the same time to describe its death-like features. Other tropes include metaphor, metonymy, simile, and synecdoche.