The Darkling Thrush and Are you Digging on my Grave?

The Darkling Thrush:
The poet's world is filled with darkness and gloom until one, brave, little thrush flings his soul onto the world and fills it with hope. This is similar to the scene in Wuthering Heights when Catherine dies. Edgar's world is filled with sorrow as he watches Catherine suffer and fade away. Then, once Catherine is born and has grown into a child, she fills Edgar and Nelly's world with hope and life. Nelly exclaims, "The twelve years, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life" (185). Little Catherine's soul was flung in the world to replace the sorrowful gap left by Catherine's passing.

Are you Digging on my Grave?
This poem reflects that, while we may feel important and special while we live, we are nothing more than a grave and dust when we die. With the exception of Catherine, so far everyone who dies in Wuthering Heights has been promptly forgotten about. Usually, they get a sentence to say they passed, or were ill, and then bam! They're dead, never to be thought of again.