Answer:
"Hope" is the major thing that runs throughout the poem.
The example of personification in this excerpt is: An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.
Personification is when inanimate things have human qualities. Here, a night cannot be apprehensive/crawl, because it is not alive.
C) <span>third stage: nature viewed as a type of divine presence</span>
