Answer:
Use context clues.
Explanation:
Context clues are clues in the text around a word that help you find a word's meaning.
For a simple example, if the text says:
'"Which building should we go to?" asked Tim.
"Let's go to my house!" exclaimed Bob.'
Let's say you don't know what the word "building" means. Using context clues, you can find out that a house is a type of building, and so you have an idea of what a building may be.
Wait I’m confused are you talking about this sentence?
My answer is D) The years gone by
The following is my reasoning:
This poem has a theme of losing a loved one and the process of aging and in the lines "Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / and hid his face amid a crowd of stars." The narrator wrote this poem for his wife to read in her old age, assuming he wrote this for her before his own death (this statement is supported by the first stanza of the poem).
This is a literary technique known as conceit.
A conceit<span> is a kind of metaphor that compares two very different things in a remarkable and smart way. In this poem, the two opposing forces are light and darkness. But still, the author was able to equate them together in a surprising way to relate them both to the theme of beauty.</span>
