Im dumb so help

Imagine if going to work every day meant your life thats the reality that meat packers in this county face with some of the highest rates of injury and death of any profession i myself worked at such a facility for two years and can resport on the unsafe conditions firsthand

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Whats the importance of gaining a general understanding of and interpretation of the work of literature. explain what the importance is to me