What are the three commonly used question patterns? helping verb/subject/main verb adverb/verb/subject adjective or pronoun/subject/interrogative verb

Does any one read this story "when mr. came to dine". in 9th grade. plz i need with one question about this story?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

According to the author, where can we find the answer to our nation’s “most pressing problem”? does that seem logical?