Read the excerpt below and answer the question. i lived in the first century of world wars. i lived in the first century of these wars. these words are the first and last lines of the poem. what is the best explanation of why rukeyser repeats them? to highlight her wish to become a soldier to emphasize the idea that war is violent to remind the reader that war is unavoidable to hope that world wars will come to an end

d) to hope that world wars will come to an end

Explanation: In the given excerpt we can see the first and the last lines of the poem by Rukeyser, these lines read "I live in the first century of world wars", and she repeated it in the last line, this is because she hopes that world wars will come to an end, she expresses that idea by emphasizing that she lived in the first century of those wars, as a way to say that it might not be the only century of world wars but she hopes it is.

the difference between an explicit and implicit meaning is that the explicit meaning of a poem is that the detail is exactly defined. nothing is left to interpretation. an implicit meaning is an implied meaning. kabir's poetry is both explicit and implicit in that it can be interpreted on different levels. the explicit meaning leaves nothing to interpretation while the implicit meaning leaves lots open to interpretation. an example of this is found in the poem "rumi and the spiritual lover".