Question

In a poem by this author, the only sound in a churchyard is the “hops from stage to stage” of a goldfinch left in a cage on a grave. The speaker asks, “Who hopeth, endureth all things? / Who thinketh no evil, but sings?” in a poem by this author protesting the blinding of birds to improve their singing. (10[1])During (10[1])a meeting between two people in a poem by this author, a “grin of bitterness” sweeps “Like an ominous bird a-wing.” A poem by this author is set when “The ancient pulse of germ (10[1])and birth (10[1])/ Was shrunken hard and dry” and (10[1])“The tangled bine-stems (10[1])scored the sky (10[1])/ Like strings of broken lyres.” In that poem by him, the speaker hears the title bird sing of “[s]ome blessed Hope, (10[1])whereof (10[2])he knew (10[1]-5[1])/ And I was unaware” (10[1])as he leans upon a “coppice (10[3])gate.” (10[5])For 10 points, name this English poet of “The Darkling Thrush.” ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Thomas Hardy (The first three poems are “The Caged Goldfinch,” “The Blinded Bird,” and “Neutral Tones”)
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