Greek stories typically end with great suffering to try to explain reasons to the reader why there are bad things in the world, not only that but they try to teach the reader lessons so most of them have suffering as endings as a way of showing that this could possibly lead to that.
Answer:
I need the poem, and I need the choices to answer what the theme is to answer your question.
Explanation:
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.
