Answer:
The statement that best explains how the poet's use of figurative language in this excerpt conveys the tone is "She uses personification to show that time is unable to ease a broken heart"
Step-by-step explanation:
“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem that tells the story of a heartbroken woman who can not find peace or relief from her pain, and he makes time an important character by giving it curative and healing attributes as if its a person or a thing that you can actually see.