What dose the word facetiously mean?

What distinguishes the dialogue of this excerpt most clearly as a work of the postmodern era?

Write a minimum 150-word response in which you explain how hughes uses poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and enjambment to reveal his theme in "theme for english b."

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "