Answer:
A. Each of us is responsible for our own independence and lives.
A. Optimistic.
Explanation:
The poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley is a poem of resilience and courage amidst the problems and hardships of life. The poem also reminds us of how we are all responsible for our own lives and decisions, and no matter what happens, nothing can bring us down unless we allow it to. Thus, the sentence that best reflects the theme of the poem is that each of us is responsible for our own lives and independence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Rainy Day" is a short poem where the speaker compares his inner thoughts to that of a rainy day. More of a depressing tone, the poem presents a comparison of his inner feelings, mental turmoil to that of a "cold, and dark, and dreary" day. But then, in the third and last stanza of the poem, he declares "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining" which is a rather optimistic tone, one where he seems to reassure himself of the positivity of things to come. Thus, the tone of the language used in the lines from the last stanza is an optimistic one.
