Select the correct text in the passage.
which two sets of lines in this excerpt from thomas hardy's "the darkling thrush" signify hope in the midst of despair?
i leant upon a coppice gate
when frost was spectre-gray,
and winter's dregs made desolate
the weakening eye of day.
the tangled bine-stems scored the sky
like strings of broken lyres,
and all mankind that haunted nigh
had sought their household fires.
the land's sharp features seemed to be
the century's corpse outleant,
his crypt the cloudy canopy.
the wind his death lament.
the ancient pulse of germ and birth
was shrunken hard and dry,
and every spirit upon earth
seemed fervourless as i
at once a voice arose among
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At once a voice arose among

The bleak twigs overhead

In a full-hearted evensong

Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom.

Explanation:

The two sets of lines in this excerpt from Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" that signifies hope in the midst of despair are:

*At once a voice arose among

The bleak twigs overhead

In a full-hearted evensong

*Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom.

Explanation:

"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy is a dark and poem that portrays a desolate world, all of the elements and vocabulary used are a representation of despair, but there is a character in this poem that brings a little light to it which is the Thrush, these specific lines are the bright moments of the full poem were even surrounded by darkness the thrush dears to believe in a new beginning and rebirth.

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