This question is based on the following poem. 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? a. fighting doesn't resolve problems. b. life is short; laugh and be merry. c. music makes people happy. d. take pride in being a human being.