The poet is introduced to us in the opening line using the pronoun "I." The poem expresses his feelings and ideas while he is in the classic thinking stance of leaning on a gate in a little wooded area. The images emphasize the harsh hopelessness of a chilly winter's evening: "Frost," "spectre-gray," "dregs," "desolate," "weakening," "broken," and "haunted" are brought together and reinforced by their connotations of cold, frailty, and death or ghostliness. The "strings of broken lyres" is a classic image of disharmony, and perhaps points to a lack of joy in the poet's vision of life. Even the people who have gone home to the warmth of their fires seem to have assumed a ghostly quality, "all mankind that haunted nigh.
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