A cultural universal (also called an <u>anthropological universal</u> or <u>human universal</u>), as discussed by Emile Durkheim, George Murdock, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Donald Brown and others, is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Taken together, the whole body of cultural universals is known as <u>the human condition</u>. Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations. Some anthropological and sociological theorists that take a cultural relativist perspective may deny the existence of cultural universals: the extent to which these universals are "cultural" in the narrow sense, or in fact biologically inherited behavior is an issue of "<em>nature versus nurture</em>".
To describe the gothic style you must get into the etymology of the word Gothic it comes from the word Goth the Goths were a Germanic tribe that flourish during the last leg of the Roman empire.
I would need to see a picture of the actual problem to answer but id you’re looking for an explanation as to what you need to do read the poem and connect the lines to the one that describes the feeling of the poem.