If a politician tells you that "everybody is joining his team", then this is called a Bandwagon Propaganda. Bandwagon is a persuasive technique of propaganda, wherein others are encouraged to do the same act as what others do because the majority of the people agreed in joining them. An example of a Bandwagon technique is, "Most of the people are voting for this candidate. We should vote for him too."
I would say that the lines which show us how desperate the poet is are the following:
"... helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite--"
As you can see here, the poet says he is helpless, meaning that he cannot find inspiration to write what he wants to write. Therefore he is desperate for some inspiration, which is why he is biting his truant pen in order to show how anxious he is to get his inspiration back.
D- they canot live very long
I’m pretty sure it’s the first one because Douglass refers to the railroad to the “upper railroad” which is basically him saying it’s not as secretive as it should be
