Which excerpt from Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" most plainly expresses awe for its subject?

a. "So little cause for carolings/Of such ecstatic sound..." (correct choice)

b. "I leant upon a coppice gate/When Frost was spectre-gray..."

c. "The tangled bine-stems scored the sky,/Like strings of broken lyres..." (incorrect choice)

d. "The land's sharp features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant..."

While taking the test, I chose answer C, but the correct answer is A. I would like to know why this is. Can someone please help?

- a.) the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.