She is vindictive toward Ivan while pretending to be worried about him, Thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him.
A lyric poem is a comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional state
It is false
What the excerpt is trying to convey is that, with the current generation we are so preoccupied with own self-interests. We value vanity, self and glory without considering the individuals we face as we walk, as we talk and as we engage. The passage reinstates that individuals have to get back and introspect about not their own gratifications and egotistical desires but the welfare with others, even though it is innate and inevitable that we always point to the ego.
C) We went to hear the man himself speak.
Himself is an intensive pronoun. Intensive and reflexive pronouns end use the object form of the pronoun and end in -self. Intensive pronouns are found immediately after the antecedent. In this case, after "man" because "himself" is intensifying "man".