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PART A: Which of the following statements best expresses a theme of the poem?

A
Playing games with death is a helpful way for one to cope with loss.
B
Death has a finality people cannot easily understand.
C
Death is a part of life people can avoid.
D
Grief can be comforting when we understand death.

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The poem is "The Elephant in the Room" -written by Terry Kattering- and the statement that best expresses a theme of the poem is death has a finality people cannot easily understand.

Explanation:

The Elephant in the Room

"There's an elephant in the room.

It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get

around it.

Yet we squeeze by with, "How are you" and "I'm fine."

And a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.

We talk about the weather.

We talk about work.

We talk about everything--

except the elephant in the room.

There's an elephant in the room.

We all know it is there.

We are thinking about the elephant

as we talk together.

It is constantly on our minds.

For you see, it is a very big

elephant.

It has hurt us all.

But we do not talk about the elephant in the room.

Oh please, say her name.

Oh please, say "Barbara" again.

Oh please, let's talk about the

elephant in the room.

For if we talk about her death,

Perhaps we can talk about her life?

Can I say "Barbara" to you and not

have you look away?

For if I cannot, then you are leaving

Alone ...

In a room ...

With an elephant..."

The expression "elephant in the room" refers to a reality that is present in people's lives, which may affect them, but in which they prefer not to think, because they do not understand it.

Death is a reality in everyone's life, it is something intangible that causes fear and that each person must face at some point. The majority of people do not understand death as part of the life cycle, but as something that takes away a loved one, causing sadness and loneliness.

What the poem best expresses is precisely that death has a finality people cannot easily understand.

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