Comprehension Passage
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
Apostrophe to Man
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade;
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose:
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young; exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed;
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market;
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out,
Homo called sapiens.
What one of the following statements is true?
1
The poem is concerned about unmasking racial discrimination.
2
The poem is concerned about humans' propensity to go to war despite all the catastrophes it creates in its wake.
3
The poem is pro-war, eulogizing human's heroic capacity to attain martrydom for the sake of their
nation
nation
4
The poem is affrimative in its overall tenor.