<span>Both thought that they had committed a moral and necessary act of defiance. </span>
The correct answer is <span>a. Crossing the Bar
The poem deals with the end of a life, more precisely, he wrote it after his son died. It perfectly fits the role of being a final poem in a collection.</span>
I think perhaps that the influence the bloody American civil war had on subsequent literature would probably be relative to the hard realities of the battlefield and life in the army camps as experienced by the ordinary e a soldiers on both sides of the conflict as opposed to the lofty ideal of opposing slavery could be a reason why realism returned to American literature.
I believe the final four are correct hope it helps :)