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Which excerpt from langston hughes's poem "madam and the rent man" best demonstrates the speaker's determination?

J’ à la piscine avec mes amis samedi dernier. (être)

In the first six lines of "a valediction: forbidding mourning," the speaker compares parting to a. dying. c. sorrowing. b. breathing. d. dissolving.