Which statement provides the line of reasoning presented in the passage?
A Women and men may share a common experience of individuality, but women are better equipped to exert control over public matters.
B Women share the same experience that men do of navigating life as individuals and therefore should be given the opportunity to develop self-reliance for their own good and the good of society.
C People do not share a common experience, so society should consider individual differences, not gender, when determining who should be allowed to live independently.
D Women should pursue the opportunity to be self-reliant with caution because while it may be good for their individual development, it will hurt society in general.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief