What is setting?
What is theme?
What is plot?
What is problem?
What is main idea?

Setting: Is the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

Theme: A theme could be the an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature, but it could also be a general message or statement about a subject that all the elements of a story or a poem work together to develop.

Plot: Is a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose.

Problem: A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome by the main characters.

Main Idea: The main idea of a passage, also called the central idea or main point, is the primary concept of a passage. It represents the essential point that the author is trying to convey. The main idea may be clearly stated as a sentence.

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even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.