The answer is: A. To inspire people
In this excerpt from his speech we can see that the says that the privilege is to help the men to endure with the writing to inspire the people.
“The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.”
