Explain some similarities in imagery and poetic devices in Thomas Hardy's "The Voice" and Ted Hughes' "Full Moon and Little Frieda."

This is a tall order because Hughes' poem and Hardy's poem
are nothing alike in mood, tone, theme, metaphor, emotional impact or imagery. However,
let's give it a go. One similarity is that in both poems, there is listening. In Hughes'
"Full Moon and Little Freida," the narrator says Little Frieda is listening ("And you
listening") after having listed the sounds she hears, sounds that define the night
because the perfect darkness veils all sight ("a dog bark and the clank of a bucket").
In Hardy's "The Voice" the poetic speaker (in this case, Hardy himself) says that he
hears the woman he has lost to death calling to him ("how you call to me, call to me, /
... / Can it be you that I hear?"). A common poetic device they both use is the poetic
technique of metaphor. Hughes uses a metaphor to compare the walking cows to a "dark
river" and "boulders," and Hardy uses a metaphor to compare the north wind to ooze, a
liquid that moves slowly through small narrow places, like barren "thorn"
branches.

Hughes employs nature imagery related to a farm
on a pleasant though dark evening, mentioning "spider's web," "dew," stars, "Cows," a
lane, "hedges," "wreaths of breath." Finally the "Moon! Moon!" appears to light the
night and give Little Frieda a happy thrill before bedtime. Hardy employs nature imagery
related to a desolate barren meadow swept by a cold northern wind, implying spring time
("when our day was fair"), a road leading to a town ("I drew near the town"), mist ("wan
wistlessness") and mentioning "breeze," "wet mead" [meadow]), leaves of late autumn or
early winter ("leaves around me falling"), north wind and barren thorn bushes ("Wind
oozing thin through the thorn from norward").