WILL MARK BRAINLIEST IF ANSWERED Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”

But, leathery hands full
of wet brown life,
knee deep in the summer
roadside grass,
he just smiled and said
they have places to go to
too.

Why does the author use the words "wet brown life” in this excerpt?

to show that the grass is still alive and growing
to indicate that the mud is all over everything
to signify how wet the night has become
to point out that the toads are living things

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly