Question

question 3 of 5
how are sandburg’s \grass\ and millay’s \spring\ similar?

a. they are both about appreciating the cycle of life.

b. they are both about the pain of a dying soldier.

c. they are both about beauty trying to hide death.

d. they are are metaphors for starting over again.

Explanation:

Carl Sandburg's Grass uses grass as a symbol that covers the graves of soldiers, masking the death and destruction of war while nature continues. Edna St. Vincent Millay's Spring contrasts the cheerful, blooming natural world with the speaker's awareness of death, framing spring's beauty as a distraction from mortality. Both works center on natural beauty that obscures or hides the reality of death. Option A is incorrect because Grass focuses on erasure of death rather than appreciating life cycles, and Spring rejects the joy of the life cycle. Option B is wrong because only Grass references soldiers, while Spring does not focus on a dying soldier. Option D is incorrect as neither poem is about "starting over"; Grass is about covering death, and Spring is about the tension between beauty and death.

Answer:

C. They are both about beauty trying to hide death.