I believe the answer is A.) However because it is used to show how petroleum is different than coal which is a contrast.
Answer:
I would contend that the lines that have a more serious tone are these: I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give, and when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember, I love you.
Explanation:
The speaker in this poem starts and finishes his declaration of love with references to his lack of material wealth. These parts of the poem feature a more serious tone. He then asks his beloved one to keep the poem, and his love, like a humble, but necessary, object. It is here, and throughout the next two stanzas, when he employs a visually descriptive and figurative language: a warm coat, a pair of thick socks. He then compares the poem and his love to a pot full of yellow corn and a scarf for your head, two equally simple, but very comforting, things. Lastly, he compares his love to a compass and to a warm and safe place in the middle of the wilderness (a reference to senectitude), finishing with a praise to love.
Answer:
The overwhelming theme is that true love outweighs any phisical attraction.
Explanation:
He says that no matter the haircut, shave, shampoo, he wouldn't love his girl any less. He is saying that no matter how she looks, he won't think of her any less.
An author might chose a first person narrator, because the first person narrator has a first person view of whatever the story is talking about. So a first person narrator makes an author more reliable and makes the story more personal.
