Question the-fo
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,
we dread their fever.
we am stered in its whirl.
we am stered like
the hot shrivelled seeds.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It illustrates a change in the natural environment that the speaker implies is responsible for the growing misgivings described in the text.
It establishes an example of consistency in the natural landscape that the speaker then contrasts with the unpredictability of human emotions.
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.
It evokes the ordinariness of an event in nature to suggest that the critical self-evaluation the speaker engages in is a common pursuit.