Read this passage from "dover beach' by matthew arnold:
ah, love, let us be true
to one another! for the world, which seems
to lie before us like a land of dreams,
so various, so beautiful, so new,
hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain;
and we are here as on a darkling plain
swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
where ignorant armies clash by night
the connotation of the word "struggle' gives the poem a _
tone.
o a. frightening
o b. joyous
o c. eager to
o d. desperate
(apex)