Read the following excerpt from the poem "mending wall" by robert frost:

there where it is we do not need the wall:
he is all pine and i am apple orchard.
my apple trees will never get across
and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him.
he only says, 'good fences make good neighbors.'
which best describes the speaker's tone in this passage?
a. he finds it amusing that the neighbor insists on keeping up old traditions.
b. he resents the neighbor's insistence that he rebuild the fallen wall.
c. he is relieved that the neighbor wants to continue maintaining the wall.
d. he is annoyed that his neighbor insists on maintaining an unnecessary wall.

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explanation:

today we'd use social media to quickly spread a controversial idea, but in the eighteenth century, the printed pamphlet was highly effective. and thomas paine took full advantage of it. on january 9, 1776, when paine published his pamphlet, "common sense," he wanted to push the american people toward independence from britain. it ultimately ignite the american revolution. thomas paine argued that the monarchy was evil and should be rejected as a form of government. to underscore his point, he cited the bible to argue his case -- in judges 8: 22-23: "the israelites said to gideon, 'rule over us, you and your son and your ' gideon told them, 'i will not rule over you. the lord will rule over you'" (nrsv).