Which universal theme is shown in the excerpt?
A. the wisdom gained from experience
B. the impact of the past on the present
C. the value of learning
D. the sufferings of war
Read the excerpt from "Pilgrimage.”
Here, the Mississippi carved
its mud-dark path, a graveyard
For skeletons of sunken riverboat.
Here, the river changed its course,
Turning away from the city
as one turns, forgetting, from the past—
The abandoned bluffs, land sloping up
above the river’s bend—where now
The Yazoo fills the Mississippi’s empty bed.
