Read this excerpt and complete the sentences that follow.

a shropshire lad
by a. e. housman (excerpt)

when i was one-and-twenty
i heard a wise man say,
"give crowns and pounds and guineas
but not your heart away;
give pearls away and rubies
but keep your fancy free."
but i was one-and-twenty,
no use to talk to me.

when i was one-and-twenty
i heard him say again,
"the heart out of the bosom
was never given in vain;
'tis paid with sighs a plenty
and sold for endless rue."
and i am two-and-twenty,
and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

the central theme of the poem is
1. how one should spend money
2. how one should accumulate wealth
3. how one should attain wisdom
4. how one should invest love
in the end, the poet wise man's views.
1. doubts
2. agrees with
3. resents
4. considers

Me which theme is developed by the changing relationship between the narrator and his daughter in this excerpt ? as she grew older, she spent more of her time with girls. so much time indeed did she spend with them that she came no more, as she used to do, to her father’s room. i was scarcely on speaking terms with her. when mini and her father stop communicating, it develops the theme that children should not speak unless spoken to. as mini becomes more independent, it develops the theme that parents must learn to let go as their children grow up. as mini spends more time with friends, it develops the theme that young people are more influenced by peers than by parents. when mini and her father see each other far less often, it develops the theme that absence makes the heart grow fonder.