The answer is "WAS". Hope this helps.
Not Waving but Drowning Theme of Death. You'd think that there couldn't be a clearer distinction than the one between life and death, but "Not Waving but Drowning" goes out of its way to muddy the water, so to speak. The focus, after all, is a talking corpse who just won't shut up even though the living can't hear him.
The answer would be C) An Epic!
Hmmm... Either A or D, but I'm not sure. I know for a fact that B and C are her motives, but A and D are quite similar