as a representative poem for this discussion. ?... The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres? ... Here, Hardy has taken the romantic and soothing instrument of the lyre and described it as broken. ... At once a voice arose among The black twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. ... Throughout the poem the speaker has introduced the ideas of positive opposites to the following negatives: weakening eyes can strengt...

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