The work describes Thoreau's thoughts over the course of a year spent immersed in the natural world is the answer.
It can mean eroded, worn out, or crumbling.
(Basically it's saying that the barn is falling apart because it's so old and destroyed from weather.)
That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
The answer would be That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Answer:
I think so, others disagree
Explanation:
An author or writer uses his counterclaim as his refutation because a counterclaim is literally what it says. What the writer or author is going against in his writing and which side he is opposing or going with.
