English, 13.04.2020 22:47 chy2313

I said, Listen,
Before I'd pay
I'd go to Hades
And rot away!

—“Madam and the Rent Man,”
Langston Hughes

When Madam says "I'd go to Hades," what is the poet expressing about the perspective of a working-class renter?

A. She wants to go to the underworld.
B. She is afraid she will rot away.
C. She plans to pay the rent man.
D. She would do anything but pay the rent man.

What best describes the attitude the poet expresses by his choice of words in this stanza?

A. sarcasm
B. anger
C. indecision
D. humor

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I said, Listen,
Before I'd pay
I'd go to Hades
And rot away!

—“Madam...