Which of these sentences from the short story “the yellow wallpaper” by charlotte perkins gilman uses verbal irony?

a. if only that top pattern could be gotten off from the under one! i mean to try it, little by little.

b. i got up softly and went to feel and see if the paper did move, and when i came back john was awake.

c. it is so hard to talk to john about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

d. but i am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope—you don't get me out in the road there!

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief