In what way do poets address the first stage of loss, the lament, in elegies?

a. by glorifying and extolling the virtues of the honorable dead.
b. by expressing grief and heartbreak over a person who has died.
c. by seeking a sense of closure or solace about a death.
d. by calmly accepting the fact that death is the final stage of life.

In marigolds, which character can be described as having a laugh so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with it?

The ancient greek poet. homer, is credited with writing the odyssey. however, scholars still debate whether homer wrote the entire epic. what is the main reason for this uncertainty? o some sections of the epic are written in different poetic styles and forms. most ancient greeks could not read or write, so the epic was first written in latin ob och storytellers repeated the epic aloud for centuries before it was ever written down. od the epic was a fictional account, so the identity of its author may have been fictionalized as well.

Me determine which are quote or paraphrase.