What connotations do many of the words in the excerpt have in common?
a. journeys
b. lifelessness
c. birth
d. joy

by the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast a cold wind. beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

all along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines

lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches

The right answer is "B.Lifelessness "

The whole text expresses a sad, discouraged and lifeless feeling.

The passage that makes this more evident is:

"  All along the road the reddish

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

stuff of bushes and small trees

with dead, brown leaves under them

leafless vines  

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish

dazed spring approaches"

is there an image you meant to add?

explanation:

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.