Read this excerpt from "And Oh—That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be—" by D.H. Lawrence:

No, now I wish the sunshine would stop.

and the white shining houses, and the gay red flowers on

the balconies

and the bluish mountains beyond, would be crushed out

between two valves of darkness;

the darkness falling, the darkness rising, with muffled

sound

obliterating everything.

I wish that whatever props up the walls of light

would fall, and darkness would come hurling heavily down,

and it would be thick black dark for ever.

Not sleep, which is grey with dreams,

nor death, which quivers with birth,

but heavy, sealing darkness, silence, all immovable.

Which word best describes the poet's attitude in the excerpt?

Abored
Bpessimistic
Cferocious
Ddesperate

In this excerpt from And Oh - That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be - by D.H. Lawrence, the word that best describes the poet's attitude is pessimistic.

The correct answer is B.

Along this excerpt, we see how the poet wishes everything would run out of light, he seems to feel comfortable with the darkness. He actually says he wishes a thick black darkness "for ever".

Lawrence doesn't seem to be willing to shift this energy described in the excerpt, on the contrary, he seems to enjoy the kind of hole he describes.