Answer:
Whitman claims that "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." In other words, life continues and goes on in ways that we do not, and perhaps cannot, expect, and nothing ever truly disappears.
The correct answer would be B.
The option that contains an independent clause is the last example - While the team made their play, the frenzied crowd cheered them to victory. The independent clause here would be <em>the frenzied crowd cheered them to victory. </em>
Well, despite the fact that you haven't provided me with sentence 8 for review, I can -- fortunately for you -- say that option B MUST be the correct answer ... based solely on pure logic and a strong command of English.