Because people have lost common sense these days.
A. is correct, because the semicolon separates the sentence.
What are you asking
you need to explain for a answer
For number 1, the answer is A because this poem talks about how it is so dissappointing that people are not reading and thus he burns the books because it is a lesser evil.
For number 2, I am not quite sure. I was never too good at that in English.
