The sentence from this excerpt that stresses that America should take an offensive stand to defend themselves is:
"It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all."
Even though the United States wanted to maintain an armed neutrality, President Woodrow Wilson argued to change to an offensive strategy because German submarines were attacking merchant ships, and they were unable to protect them once they had been attacked. This is why Woodrow Wilson calls to destroy the German submarines before they could cause any damage.
Answer: The statement "He labored hard and failed at last, his sails too weak to bear the blast, the raging tempests tore away, and sent his beating bark astray." is illustrated by the metaphor of bark.
Explanation: The poem "He had his dream" is about a very optimistic man, who waits patiently for dark times to end. He uses the metaphor of a "bark" to reference his dreams, stating that good times will eventually come. However, in the statement; "He labored hard and failed at last, his sails too weak to bear the blast, the raging tempests tore away , a and sent his beating bark astray", he makes the reader create a picture of how can dreams also fail, since the windstorm (the bad times), took his luck and dreams from him.
The answer I think is either a compound sentence or a simple sentence
compound sentence = a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
simple sentence=
a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.
I can also give you the definition of clause and subject or predicate Hope this helps ;)
