Read the excerpt from "Ring Out, Wild Bells” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Ring out old shapes of foul disease;Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

The speaker urges the bells to “ring out” disease, greed, and war, and to “ring in” a thousand years of peace. This contrast shows an optimistic hope that the world can leave its problems behind and change for the better. The excerpt does not mainly describe the speaker’s joyous view of the world as it is now.

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