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What does vexed mean as it is used in the second stanza of "the second coming"?

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Which trait is common to the narrators in these excerpts? a the narrators were born in poverty the narrators were separated from their birth parents c. the narrators grew up to be criminals d the narrators worked hard in lide to improva their ocial status the narrators blamed themselves for their mistortunps