In the first stanza the poet may be suggesting that the power of poetry has shattered with his comparison of the "tangled bine-stems" to a broken lyre.  
In the first stanza the poet may be suggesting that the power of poetry has shattered with his comparison of the "tangled bine-stems" to a broken lyre.  He also provides a picture of a dreary day in which "all mankind that haunted nigh/ Has sought their household fires." The second stanza compares the desolate landscape to the corpse of "The Century," while in the third the title figure, described as "frail, gaunt, and small," makes his appearance giving the poet, in the fourth stanza, the feeling that there was "Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew/ and I was unaware." FTP identify this poem composed in the year 1900, a work by Thomas Hardy about a bird.
In the first stanza the poet may be suggesting that the power of poetry has shattered with his comparison of the "tangled bine-stems" to a broken lyre.  
The Darkling Thrush