A, discourage you can tell because if you plug in the options that is the only one that makes sense and the opposite of dissuade is persuade which means to encourage.
A narrator can write from different points of view, mainly first person or third person. Choosing the point of view is a big deal for an author, because the perspective from which a novel is narrated has a big impact on a reader's experience.
It would be easier to answer if I could the poem
The correct answer is The strings are always making new sounds.
The comparison in this poem between people and lyres shows many aspects of humanity and how fragile is our existence.
More importantly, it talks about how people can create, the sounds of the lyres are all the things people can do and how all of them can be totally different and interesting.
Once he cut it off, he could use it as a weapon because it's powers still worked, so if someone attacked him he could just whip it out and use it as a weapon to turn his enemies to stone, which he does on few occasions and wins the fights that would either be impossible or much harder for him.
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