Question

Click to read "I Am Offering this Poem," by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then

answer the question

What point is the poet making through the figurative language in the third

stanza of the poem?

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A. The speaker is providing directions to help the subject of the

poem travel through the wilderness.

B. The speaker is concerned that the subject of the poem will

become lost during her life.

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C. The speaker wants to provide warmth for the subject of the poem.

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D. The speaker wants the poem to help the subject of the poem

during difficult times.

Answer 1

The speaker is concerned that the subject of the poem will become lost during her life is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in 1952 in Santa Fe. According to Poetry Foundation, "of Chicano and Apache descent". In the mentioned poem, I am offering this poem, the speaker creates a world around the poem, the only possession he has to offer the subject. In the second stanza, he does talk about warmth provided to the object, but it is not the stanza mentioned in the question. In general, the idea of the whole poem could be resumed in letter D statement. Even though it looks like that at the very beginning of the third stanza, the speaker doesn't provide directions to travel through the wilderness. In this stanza, the speaker is concerned that the subject will become lost during her life, and also mentions he would always be with the object.