Read this excerpt from "And Oh-That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be-" by D. H. Lawrence:

No, now I wish the sunshine would stop.

and the white shining houses, and the gay red flowers on

the balconies

and the bluish mountains beyond, would be crushed out

between two valves of darkness;

the darkness falling, the darkness rising, with muffled

sound

obliterating everything.

I wish that whatever props up the walls of light

would fall, and darkness would come hurling heavily down,

and it would be thick black dark for ever.

Not sleep, which is grey with dreams,

nor death, which quivers with birth,

but heavy, sealing darkness, silence, all immovable.

Which word best describes the poet's attitude in the excerpt?

bored

pessimistic

ferocious

desperate

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Ralph Mccarthy

English

9 September, 03:25

Read this excerpt from "And Oh-That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be-" by D. H. Lawrence:

No, now I wish the sunshine would stop.

and the white shining houses, and the gay red flowers on

the balconies

and the bluish mountains beyond, would be crushed out

between two valves of darkness;

the darkness falling, the darkness rising, with muffled

sound

obliterating everything.

I wish that whatever props up the walls of light

would fall, and darkness would come hurling heavily down,

and it would be thick black dark for ever.

Not sleep, which is grey with dreams,

nor death, which quivers with birth,

but heavy, sealing darkness, silence, all immovable.

Which word best describes the poet's attitude in the excerpt?

bored

pessimistic

ferocious

desperate

NextReset

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Julio Lyons · Answer 1

The word that best describes the attitude of the poet in the excerpt is

pessimistic

The lines in the poem talk about removing all the things that are beautiful in the world. The excerpt all talks about taking all the light which would symbolize happiness.