Question

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" does the speaker most directly acknowledge the forces of nature?

A. "Some blessed Hope, where of he knew/And I was unaware."*********
B. "So little cause for carolings/Of such ecstatic sound."
C. "And all mankind that haunted nigh/Had sought their household fires."
D. "The land's sharp features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant."