How are carousing and lamenting opposites

Ineed passing this course. how does one listen responsively? list the exact steps needed and use interview with marielle tsukamoto as an example.

Changing the sentence structure and how quickly events unfold in a story can affect which literally element?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?