The speech is very focued, he seems to have his mind set to it, the tone relates to this situation in the text because they are talking about before death, and he is saying how he wants to stay the same when he dies like his body would stay the same.
Answer: We had been received by the hostess
Explanation:
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).
Is there a story along with this? We need a story to do something.
Either way, my guess is that they see themselves in it.
This expression means that you don’t have to make a decision right about a future problem. You should decide what to do about that problem when the problem is directly in front of you.