Answer and Explanation:
According to the final three lines of the poem, we can see that the theme of the poem to death is irrelevant to the world and presents itself as an unnoticed splash for those who are not participating in this moment, but are following their lives in the best possible way. In other words, we can say that death is insignificant for those who are alive.
According to the poem and the illustration we can conclude that our suffering, represented by the pain and agony that Icarus felt, only concerns ourselves and only impacts our own life, since the people around us are busy with their own activities, however this does not diminish the size and strength of what we are going through.
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
'Loveliest of Trees, the cherry now' is a poem written by A. E. Housman. The poem is about making the most of the present moment, adoring the nature and take pleasure in it during this short lifespan.
The line in which the theme that <em>people should take pleasure in nature during their short lives </em>is found in option D. The line in option D the speaker states that to take pleasure in nature fifty years is little. The speaker, while writing the poem is twenty-years old and expresses that as average human life is seventy years, he is left with only fifty years to take pleasure in nature, which the speaker considers is less time.
Therefore, option D is correct.
Further angered, Unferth declares that either he or Grendel will die that night in the cave. Grendel, however, says that he plans to carry Unferth back to the meadhall unscathed. Unferth swears he would rather kill himself, but Grendel points out that such an action would appear rather cowardly.