From at a window
PART A: Which of the following best states a central theme of this poem?

A
Love is a beautiful thing, and something not worth settling for.
B
Sometimes life's worst hardships are preferable to the pain that can be experienced from love.
C
Ask for what you wish for most in life, and sometimes you shall receive.
D
Loneliness is the worst kind of suffering.
2.
PART B: Which phrase from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?

A
"Give me hunger, pain and want, / Shut me out with shame and failure" ( Lines 4-5)
B
"Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love" ( Lines 7-8)
C
"One little wandering, western star / Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow" ( Lines 14-15)
D
"And wait and know the coming / Of a little love" ( Lines 18-19)

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