Can somebody help me please! Excerpt from "Young Love" by Sara Teasdale. In the public domain.
5. In "Young Love," what theme is best expressed in lines 9-16?
A. Having a secret love fills one with both hope and uncertainty.
B. Love ceases to exist when it is no longer a secret.
C. It is best not to hide your feelings from someone who shows you theirs.
D. Only the inexperienced can enjoy loving secretly with no hope of encouragement.
6. Based on the excerpt, how does Teasdale best develop the theme in the poem "Young Love"?
A. By using figurative language to describe the depth of the speaker's hope for love
even in the speaker's youth
B. By offering a solution of keeping love a secret in the speaker's heart
C. By showing the speaker' despair in how the sea crept up and washed his name away
when the tide was low
D. By suggesting the speaker feels eager to have him smile at her although it brings her
joy and pain
