In the east Black and White cloud created Man and in the West Blue and Yellow cloud form Women.
If I were to awnser this I would of chose c because if the mother is comparing the rock to her courage it means she doesn’t need the courage anymore it’s like she already has it.
The correct answer is the second one “an absence of love or passion.” In the poem, the general intention of the author is to describe his feelings about the love/passion that it is leaving his life. The sentence “dead leaves and snow”, is the way in which he introduces the absence feeling that he is going through. The birds, as well as the leaves of the tree, are metaphors of love, which are abandoning the tree (his life).
In general, classical drama does not have to include irony or soliloquy, but it should be noted that there are many shades of grey with it comes to classical drama, and the rules were frequently "bent".