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
4
The poem is affrimative in its overall tenor.

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