C: to avoid harmful exposure to the sun's direct rays
Donne is using both personification and apostrophe in these lines. He is using apostrophe when he speaks to death as though it were a person who could hear it and respond to him. he also personifies death as if it were a person who could feel proud or be "mighty" and "dreadful".
The Northwest Passage achieved the crossing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Crossed completely by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen from 1903 to 1906, the passage opened a new trade route for Europeans. Before that, the Vikings had used the passage as a trade route with the Inuits.
In 1609, Henry Hudson's voyage along the Hudson Bay triggered a Dutch settlement in New York and the area around the Hudson River.
I believe the answer is B
