Question

Which of the following BEST states a theme of "Songs for the People”?

1) Music helps people as long as they listen and remember the words.

2) Music can give people strength and protection during battles.

3)Music helps people to get to their goals and destinations.

4) Music can calm people and help to ease life's burdens.

Answer 1

4. Music can calm people and help to ease life's burdens.

Step-by-step explanation:

'Songs for the People' is a poem written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. The poet supplicate the idea of poet as a song-maker and how she can mae songs for weary, poor, children, etc.

The theme of the poem is that music can calm people and help to soothe life's burdens. By making songs for weary, poor, children, etc the speaker is invoking the idea that by making songs for them, she will be able to soothe their tensions. By saying,

"Let me make the songs for the weary,

Amid life’s fever and fret,

Till hearts shall relax their tension,

And careworn brows forget. "

The speaker is telling that music can calm people and help them to relieve them from life's burden.

Therefore, option 4 is correct.