What does this passage from how do i love thee by elizabeth barrett browning mean

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Indicate which statement best summarizes how john proctor feels toward the reverend parris based on his statenents of him in the crucible.