Read the poem. Then answer the questions that follows:

Afternoon in School – The Last Lesson by D. H. Lawrence

When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?

How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart

My pack of unruly hounds: I cannot start

Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,

I can haul them and urge them no more.

No more can I endure to bear the brunt

Of the books that lie out on the desks: a full three score

Of several insults of blotted pages and scrawl

Of slovenly work that they have offered me.

I am sick, and tired more than any thrall

Upon the woodstacks working weariedly.

And shall I take

The last dear fuel and heap it on my soul

Till I rouse my will like a fire to consume

Their dross of indifference, and burn the scroll

Of their insults in punishment? — I will not!

I will not waste myself to embers for them,

Not all for them shall the fires of my life be hot,

For myself a heap of ashes of weariness, till sleep

Shall have raked the embers clear: I will keep

Some of my strength for myself, for if I should sell

It all for them, I should hate them —

— I will sit and wait for the bell.

Which statement best describes the tone created by the imagery of the school books?

Question 8 options:

The detailed imagery describing the books creates a hopeful and exhilarated tone.

The exaggerated imagery of the books creates a despairing tone.

Words like endure and brunt create a hateful tone.

Words like work, brunt, and offered create a determined and positive tone.