Poem attached part a how does the imagery in the poem’s first stanza affect its mood? a the images of the woods, the lake, and the floating swans combine to create a peaceful or tranquil mood. b the description of the water creates a sad or tearful mood. c the dry paths and trees with falling leaves create a somber mood that emphasizes loss and death. d the image of the swans staying close together creates a romantic mood. part b which statement best describes how the mood named in part a changes in the poem’s second stanza? a the poem begins in a nostalgic mood: the speaker is remembering the beautiful natural world of his childhood. it changes to a mood of grief and mourning as the speaker realizes how much of that natural world has been destroyed. b the beautiful, uplifting flight of the swans gives the poem a more hopeful mood. c the departure of the swans, which symbolize constancy and beauty, gives the poem a gloomier or more melancholic mood. d the poem, which began in a happy, romantic mood, changes to a sad, heartbroken mood. the swans fly away just as the speaker’s lover leaves, and the speaker is alone and sad now.

Part A:  The imagery in the poem's first stanza affects its mood in the way described in letter A. The woodland paths, the lake that mirrors a still sky and the swans bring the reader a feeling of peace and quiet, pure serenity. The first stanza and its imagery only aim at creating a peaceful and tranquil mood, and nothing else. There isn't (not even in an implicit way) any sadness, darkness, and no romantic mood. It's a mere description of the scenery of the place.

Part B: The statement which best describes how the mood named in Part A changes in the poem's second stanza is the one we see in letter C. The departure of the swans symbolize constancy and beauty in the sense that that's how constant beauty is: it flies away when we least expect, as we get older. It gives the poem a more melancholic mood since the almost straight-forward scenery description we see in the first stanza is now followed by the narrator reflecting upon the passing of time ("The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me/ Since I first made my count) and how beauty (the one described in the first stanza) can be gone right before our eyes, and very quickly ("I saw, before I had well finished/ All suddenly mount/ And scatter wheeling in great broken rings/ Upon their clamorous wings).

Part A: The images of the lake, and the floating swans combine to create a peaceful or tranquil mood.

Part B: The departure of the swans, which symbolize constancy and beauty, gives the poem a gloomier or more melancholic mood

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