Question

PART B: Which phrase from the poem best supports the answer to Part A? A "Give me hunger, pain and want, / Shut me out with shame and failure" ( Lines 4-5) B "Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love" ( Lines 7-8) C "One little wandering, western star / Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow" ( Lines 14-15) D "And wait and know the coming / Of a little love" ( Lines 18-19)

Answer 1

To answer this question, you need to have "PART A", which is the following:

1. PART A: Which of the following best states a central theme of this poem?

A. Love is a beautiful thing, and something not worth settling for.

B. Sometimes life's worst hardships are preferable to the pain that can be

experienced from love.

C. Ask for what you wish for most in life, and sometimes you shall receive.

D. Loneliness is the worst kind of suffering.

Answer:

The correct answer is option B "Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love" ( Lines 7-8)

Explanation:

This poem talks about the importance of love and the difficulty of being alone.

The phrase that supports that theme of the poem is the one that says "Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love."

As we can see, the author can bear any type of the worst pain that exists, but he cannot bear to be without love and alone.

This indicates that the correct answer is option B.