“fate slew him”: ‘she’ in the poem most directly refers to

question 13 options:

a)
the man’s wife

b)
fate

c)
both answer choices are correct

d)
neither answer choice is correct

b). Fate

Explanation:

"Fate Slew Him But He Did Not Drop" by Emily Dickinson is a poem of just two  four-lined stanzas, portraying a battle between man and fate. She personalizes fate as a woman who consistently attacks the man with harsh blows but the man never relents and in the end emerges victorious. She embodies the various trials and problems that man will have to endure and it is on the man whether to survive or give up.

i will try let me see what they are first

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."