Question

What does each stanza in "Auspex" show?
a. several interpretations of the same issue
b. different ways the poet approaches his predicament
c. the different stages of a natural process
d. the ways in which the poet tries to change his circumstances

Answer 1

heres the full poem.
Auspex

by James Russell Lowell

My heart, I cannot still it,
Nest that had song-birds in it;
And when the last shall go,
The dreary days to fill it,
Instead of lark or linnet,
Shall whirl dead leaves and snow.

Had they been swallows only,
Without the passion stronger
That skyward longs and sings,—
Woe’s me, I shall be lonely
When I can feel no longer
The impatience of their wings!

A moment, sweet delusion,
Like birds the brown leaves hover;
But it will not be long
Before their wild confusion
Fall wavering down to cover
The poet and his song.