Read the poem below and answer the question that follows:
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the season;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being
There is a gap between Miniver's grand, romantic fantasies (warriors and bright swords) and his pathetic reality (growing lean and weeping). The "reasons" he has for weeping are self-inflicted because he refuses to live in the present, creating a sense of situational irony.
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