Which detail in the passage best to determine the time the story is set in?

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?

Review rachel’s planned video presentation outline and answer the question

What can the reader infer about the fears and values of the ancient greeks based on this description of the cyclops’s island?