Franz kafka wrote the metamorphosis in 1915. during that time, people had jobs that were repetitive and boring. which excerpt from the passage best expresses this idea?
a. above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out . .
b. from this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place.
c. one morning, as gregor samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
d. day in, day out, on the road.

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