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? Reading and Writing · None · None · MCQ Q8

The following text is from H.D.’s 1916 poem “Mid-Day.” In the poem, the speaker is on a path in an outdoor setting. A slight wind shakes the seed-pods— my thoughts are spent as the black seeds. My thoughts tear me, I dread their fever. I am scattered in its whirl. I am scattered like the hot shrivelled seeds. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

A
It illustrates a change in the natural environment that the speaker implies is responsible for the growing misgivings described in the text.
B
It establishes an example of consistency in the natural landscape that the speaker then contrasts with the unpredictability of human emotions.
C
It presents an observation of an occurrence in the natural world that the speaker then expands on to convey a sense of a turbulent interior state.
D
It evokes the ordinariness of an event in nature to suggest that the critical self-evaluation the speaker engages in is a common pursuit.

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