The Blinded Bird

"The Blinded Bird" is a 1916 poem written by English author and poet Thomas Hardy.

The poem was reportedly written as a protest against Vinkensport, a sort of singing competition between male finches.^[1] The poem decries the prior historical practice of blinding birds to improve their performance at the sport. For its last stanza Hardy borrows from the New Testament using themes found in 1 Cor. 13: 1-8.^[2]

References

↑ Ray, Martin (2007). Thomas Hardy Remembered. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 0-7546-3973-8. pg. 193
↑ The Era of Casual Fridays (a commonplace book (with commentary) devoted to literature)

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Thomas Hardy (works)

Novels	The Poor Man and the Lady (1867) Desperate Remedies (1871) Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) The Return of the Native (1878) The Trumpet-Major (1880) A Laodicean (1881) Two on a Tower (1882) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) The Woodlanders (1887) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891/92) Jude the Obscure (1895) The Well-Beloved (1897)

Short story collections	Wessex Tales (1888) A Group of Noble Dames (1891) Life's Little Ironies (1894) A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913)

Short stories	"The Three Strangers" (1883) "A Mere Interlude" (1885) "Alicia's Diary" (1887) "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891) "The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893) "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1894)

Poetry collections	Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) Poems 1912–13 Satires of Circumstance (1914)

Poems	"Neutral Tones" (1898) "The Darkling Thrush" (1901) "The Ruined Maid" (1901) "The Respectable Burgher" (1901) "The Man He Killed" (1902) "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (1903) "The Convergence of the Twain" (1915) "The Blinded Bird" (1916)

Plays	The Dynasts (1904–1908)

Related	Thomas Hardy's Wessex Egdon Heath

Life	Thomas Hardy's Cottage Max Gate home Emma Gifford (first wife) Florence Dugdale (second wife)

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