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Which word best describes the feeling that the poet creates in this poem?

What is the speaker doing in this poem?

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1
What is the speaker doing in this poem?
saying goodbye to his dying father
accepting that his father is going to die
begging his father to fight against death
comforting his father before he dies
2
Which word best describes the feeling that the poet creates in this poem?
accepting
pleading
anger
repentance
3
The repetition of "Rage, Rage against the dying of the light"--
none of the above
emphasizes his utter sadness at his fathers misfortunes
emphasizes how angry he is
emphasizes how hard he wants his father to fight
4
The 'dying of the light" refers metaphorically to--
the passage of time
death
the aging of the body
the loss of the will to live
5
in the first stanza, the poet is addressing--
wise men, good men, wild men, grave men
a general audience
older people
"my father'
6
The poet included the figurative language in line 14 in order to---
even though he is old, he still has much to live for
he is wise and therefore has much to live for
blindness can not keep him from death
he has not accomplished much in life yet