5. Which statement best describes how the setting in stanza 4 impacts the meaning of the poem? O A The speaker does not want to pause at the "house." suggesting the setting frightens her and she is eager to move on. er CCO. B The speaker describes her grave as a "house." suggesting she needs shelter from death, contributing to her desperate and scared tone. C The speaker's final "house" or tomb has collapsed into the earth, contributing to the poem's theme that human lives are unimportant to nature. OD The speaker describes her tomb as a "house." showing she views her body's final resting place as one of comfort rather than fear.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.