Question

Which best describes one theme of both "A Man Said to the Universe" and "Sympathy"?

A. The environment is indifferent to the individual.
B. The individual is more powerful than the environment.
C. An individual’s place in the world is determined by his or her environment.
D. An individual affects society, just as a society influences individuals.

Answer 1

C. An individual's place in the world is determined by his or her environment.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dunbar describes what is it like being a black male in the 1800s America in his poem Sympathy. He gives a metaphor to the caged bird and how deadly the bird wants to get out after it sees a beautiful landscape.

Stephen Crane's A Man Said to the Universe shows the significance of the existence. And this is the existence of a human-being. This human-being is an individual and the poem is about his conversation with the universe. The man wants a recognition from the universe.

The summaries show that the correct answer is the third one - an individual’s place in the world is determined by his or her environment. Indeed, in both poems individual challenging is present.

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