Question

Select the correct answer.
A dirge is a funeral song. Why did Shelley choose that title for this poem?

A Dirge
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;

Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,--
Wail, for the world's wrong!

A.
He is discouraged by the state of society.
B.
He is embracing nature and its violence.
C.
He wishes to mourn nature.
D.
He wishes to comfort nature.