Answer:
He saw through every cloud a gleam -
He had his dream
Explanation:
You didn't provide the last stanza of the poem. This is what it looks like:
But what cared he
For wind or sea!
He said, "The tempest will be short,
My bark will come to port."
He saw through every cloud a gleam--
He had his dream.
The options you were given are the following:
A couplet is a pair of successive lines in a verse. The couplet that best shows us that the speaker is a serious and determined person is the fourth one.
The poem tells about a man who doesn't lose hope, no matter how difficult the things he faces are. He was poor, but he worked hard to achieve his dreams (he worked up to it through toil and strife). Instead of giving up during the bad times, he kept pushing, saying that the tempest will be short. What he focused on were the good things awaiting him after the tempest. That is the gleam, the dream mentioned in the last couplet. All that matters to him is to make his dream come true.
This is why the last couplet is the correct one.
Answer:
"Afloat fore’er before his eyes,
It colored for him all his skies" and
"He saw through every cloud a gleam—
He had his dream."
Explanation:
Plato
