The correct answer is the first option. In the poem “The Sonnet-Ballad,” by Gwendolyn Brooks the death is portrayed as a flirt. In this poem the woman is lamenting over the death of her lover and she describes death as a temptress whose possessive arms and beauty can make any man fall for her. Death is portrayed throughout these lines: ” Coquettish death, whose impudent and strange/Possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)/Can make a hard man hesitate—and change./And he will be the one to stammer, “Yes.””