The correct answer is <span>A. at midnight while the nightingale sings. He thinks this kind of death would be painless and sweet, enveloped in the ecstatic song of the nightingale. There is a certain amount of grieving at the thought of death, because then he wouldn't have had ears to listen to the nightingale's song. But nevertheless, this moment provides an escape from the grim, disturbing reality - an escape too short, as it turns out at the end of the poem.</span>
The theme which is best reinforced by the given excerpt is that women generally felt detached from each other because of the societal roles thrust upon them. This can be seen especially from the sentence in the passage which states that, ' we live close together and we live far apart'. 'Live apart' in this sentence implies that there is no real close relationship among the women even though they are neighbors[ live together].
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B: By adding supporting evidence
