Acentral theme of this story is that a. though horrible, war is an opportunity for men to become heroes. b. war is an awful but sometimes necessary reality of the human condition. c. the effects of war go beyond the physical deaths it causes. d. in war, a soldier must be brutal in order to be a hero.

By percy bysshe shelley hail to thee, blithe spirit! bird thou never wert, that from heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art. higher still and higher from the earth thou springest like a cloud of fire; the blue deep thou wingest, and singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. in the golden lightning of the sunken sun, o'er which clouds are bright'ning, thou dost float and run; like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. 1 select the correct answer. why is the poem "ode to a skylark" an example of a horatian ode? a. because its stanzas are of uniform length b. because it is filled with figurative language c. because it is filled with references to myths d. because it pays tribute to the figure of the skylark