Read these lines from komunyakaa's "facing it": . . no tears. i'm stone. i'm flesh. my clouded reflection eyes mewhat does the figurative language in this excerpt most likely mean? a. his body will feed animals upon the event of his death. b. his reflection seems to be a part of the war memorial wall. c. he can't but feel trapped in the war, even though it's over. d. his masterpiece sculpture was once a living man.

b.his reflection seems to be a part of the war memorial wall.

In the poem, the speaker is visiting the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial and sees his reflection in the granite. This immediately eliminates option A and D. In the lines, he says, "I'm stone" and "my clouded reflection eyes me". Both of these lines indicate that the speaker feels as though he is inside of the memorial. We don't know from these lines if he feels trapped in the war.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.