Nineteenth-century romantic poets such as william wordsworth developed lyric poetry into a form that used first-person accounts of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment. what thoughts or feelings do the first two stanzas of wordsworth's "the solitary reaper" convey?

behold her, single in the field,
yon solitary highland lass!
reaping and singing by herself;
stop here, or gently pass!
alone she cuts and binds the grain,
and sings a melancholy strain;
o listen! for the vale profound
is overflowing with the sound.

no nightingale did ever chaunt
more welcome notes to weary bands
of travellers in some shady haunt,
among arabian sands:
a voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
in spring-time from the cuckoo-bird
, breaking the silence of the seas
among the farthest hebrides

a the speaker's sadness at the reaper’s song
b the speaker's experiences traveling and seeing the world
c the speaker's feelings about agriculture and women working diligently
d the speaker’s admiration for and gratitude to the reaper

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky