What two words or phrases in this excerpt from "thanatopsis" by william cullen bryant best to reveal the meaning of the word blight as it is used in the poem? she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty, and she glides into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy, that steals away their sharpness, ere he is aware. when thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall. and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart-- go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings,

The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:

The meaning of the term Blight is scourge, whiter, disaster.  

The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.

“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.

"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.

tending to cause harm

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