I believe it is the final sentence: I left for college when I was 18 (that was also the age at which I was married). This is because the parentheses also give information about another incident that took place at the time - his/her marriage.
Anguish is a synonym of the word despair
Hi sorry I can't help you since there are no underlined words.
False a pronoun takes the place of a noun. they are to be used so we don't have to refer to the same noun over and over again
These lines demonstrate the political activism of his poetry because it goes to show his perspective on America, while also protesting against American racism which was almost at its peak at the time he wrote this poem