I agree with the person above - I believe the correct answer is A. serenity.
Thoreau was a transcendentalist, which means that he wrote about nature quite a lot. He believed that people should return to living in nature and escape from the concrete cities they were surrounded with in order to find their true selves once again. His description of the pond during the night and day creates a serene and peaceful picture one could relax to.
Answer: <span>A) Title of an article
As a general rule, works which are short should not be in italics, instead should be enclosed in quotation marks. From among the options stated above the one which can be considered as a short work is an article.</span>
This is due to the given perspectives that the story is read from. Also, another person may personally relate to the events in the story in different ways than others, and therefore interpret it differently.