Read lines 44-47 from the poem "Your Laughter" and answer the question.

deny me bread, air,
light, spring.
but never your laughter
for I would die.

YOUR LAUGHTER from The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda. copyright
1972 by Pablo Neruda and Donald D. Walsh. Reported by permission of New
Directions Publishing Corp.

The poet uses these lines to indicate that for the speaker, laughter is most necessary to

A. enjoy a relationship
B. avoid awkwardness
C. entertain people
D. nourish the soul​