Which statement describes the difference in tone between the first half and the second half of "Poem"? The first half is philosophical; the second half portrays reality. The first half is optimistic; the second half is more ominous. The first half suggests indifference; the second half is more promising. The first half questions authority; the second half approves of commercialism.

The first half is philosophical while the second half portrays reality.

Explanation:

The poem is usually contrasted in a way that readers or listeners indulge in the stanza and remembers it. This is only possible when the first half of the poem is more towards the philosophy rather than reality as this will create imaginative values in the reader which will insist him to read further.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.