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What do lines 5/6 of the Darkling Thrush suggest?

What do lines 5/6 of the Darkling Thrush suggest?

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    The lines 5/6 in the poem suggests the desolate day. The simile of the thick tangled stems of the plant as a broken lyre scoring the sky adds more to the speaker’s grief and sadness. The world seems to be sad and the sky is mirroring that earthly sadness.

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