Consider the following lines in Hopkins's "To R.B."
My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss
Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation
What is the speaker suggesting?
Select one:
a. How now, in his later years, he needs love and joy to warm his otherwise cold existence
b. How he fritters away hours every winter playing in the snow
c. How now, in his later years, his patience grows short with the world around him
d. How now, in his later years, he sees how more hasn't come from his ideas
e. How he feels the disappointment in his life like a wintry breeze