Which of the following selections best explains what happens in the second-to-last stanza of the poem? and there sat sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar; and he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: " close that door. it’s fine in here, but i greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm— since i left plumtree, down in tennessee, it’s the first time i’ve been warm."
a. sam mcgee was still alive when the speaker cremated him.
b. sam mcgee never existed, and was actually a figment of the speaker’s imagination.
c. the speaker and sam mcgee are actually the same person.
d. the speaker may be going mad from his time spent in the brutal arctic wilderness.

answer:

i believe it is b sorry if i'm wrong : )

the correct order is:

you're your own worst enemy:

they're going to say what they say, but

their opinions aren't holding you

back. it's your self-defeatist

attitude that's keeping your work

from getting its due.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "