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Read the following excerpt from "Grass" by Carl Sandburg:
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work -
I am the grass, I cover all.
Which sentence best analyzes the poet's use of allusion in this passage?
O A. The speaker refers to Austerlitz to imply that the grass cannot
conceal all human activities,
B. The speaker mentions Hastings to convey the idea that grass will
eventually hide great atrocities,
C. The speaker refers to Waterloo to suggest that grass can hide
even great battle losses,
O D. The speaker of the poem is the grass, which makes its actions
seem like conscious decisions,

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