Which best summarizes the first stanza of james russell lowell's "life"?

a.
our chance to leave a legacy is quite brief.

b.
it is our ability to communicate that gives life meaning.

c.
the love of others is the only thing that matters in life.

d.
in life, we all have the same impact before we die.

A. Our chance to leave a legacy is quite brief.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.