Answer the following briefly.

What is suggested by the following words / phrases in the poem?

• spectre-grey

• haunted

• joy illimited

• blast - beruffled

• spectre-grey - Grey as a ghost

Winter’s dregs are the fallen snow and heavy fog as grey as a ghost.

• haunted – Visited

The poet was standing by a coppice gate of some old house in a dark evening.

• joy illimited - Unlimited joy

The thrush filled the bleak landscape with joy by singing its sweetest melody. The song was so breath-taking that it lifted gloom from the poet’s heavy mind and the landscape seemed to have become cheerful.

• blast –beruffled - Describes the way the thrush’s feathers are blown by the wind.

The thrush was aged and frail. It was extremely bony, skeleton like. Due to its fragility, its delicate feathers were shaken in the wind.