Question

Which lines from the poem above illustrate personification?

a. “April/Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
b. “Life in itself/Is nothing/An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”
c. “The smell of the earth is good./It is apparent that there is no death.”
d. “The sun is hot on my neck as I observe/The spikes of the crocus.”

Answer 1

The correct answer is a. Personification means giving an inanimate object, human characteristics. April is described as babbling and strewing flowers. Similar to a human, but is not actually a person. 

Answer 2

The answer is A. “April/Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification in poetry means to "humanize" not human things. For instance, the answer here is A, because April is a "thing" a month, it doesn't come like an idiot (a person is an idiot) it doesn't babble (a person-baby babbles) and it doesn't strew (people strew).

The rest of the options are simply being described, if you see, they're not being "humanized" in any way.