Question

give explain with reference to context:-
'' I leant upon the coppice gate when frost was spectre grey &winterts dregs made desolate the weakening eye of day.''​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Thomas has greatly established the tone and setting of the poem in its very first opening lines: “I leant upon the coppice gate/ When Frost was spectre-grey”. This provides us with the very notion of misery as 'frost' and 'grey'. Both signify wearing away or the slow approach of death in the form of winter.