Here is a website that will help you find the answer and understand the poem as well...
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/hopkins/section4.rhtml
If you do not wish to visit the site I believe the answer is A.
Because she is mourning her own mortality, because man is mortal.
Answer:
I'm not entirely sure if I understand the question, but I'm gonna go for it.
I believe that her hook, the way she asks a question that seems very unlikely captures the readers' attention.
Hope this helps! If not, I tried T^T
Explanation:
The author should use 1st person when speaking AS the character. 3rd person is when speaking FOR the characters, like, " Mary and Lynne ran across the field. "
He did not have long to wait. On March 12, having given the Viceroy an extra day, Gandhi and seventy-eight others left his ashram and began to walk the two hundred miles to the seacoast. There, he declared, he would take a pinch of salt from the Indian Ocean, thus violating the laws of the Empire, which declared that only the British could harvest salt.
In looking at the answer choices, a few can be dismissed immediately. From the passage it doesn't seem that the dismissal of the narrator's questions affects her too much. Therefore we can eliminate answers that show a drastic change in the narrator's emotions (the narrator feeling inadequate, lacking control, and fearing she may be doomed). The only answer left is that the narrator is dismissed. In gothic literature women are often seen as helpless, innocent victims.
