Read the excerpt.
From "The Darkling Thrush" At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong of joy limited;
An aged thrush, fall, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to filing his soul upon the growing gloom. So little
cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled
through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
How do the last two stanzas of "The Darkling Thrush" function within the rest of the poem?
They explain the reason for the bird's beautiful appearance
They explain the speaker's gloomy, dark thoughts.
They further describe the gloomy landscape.
They surprise the reader with the speaker's hopeful thought