Question 7 of 20 Click to read "I Am Offering this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then
answer the question.
What is the overall emotion expressed in the third stanza of the poem?
A. Being safe and comforted
B. Cold and lonely
C. Tired and overwhelmed
D. Feeling lost and directionless

A: being safe and comforted

Explanation:

The poem repeats "I love you" and "make you feel safe."

Even though the speaker addresses the emotions of the reader as possible feeling tired, overwhelmed, lost, directionless, cold, and lonely, the speaker is offering safety and comfort to help the reader because of his love for the reader.

blank verse is often confused with free verse. free verse avoids traditional poetic forms such as rhyme schemes and conventional metres and can follow any pattern the poet wishes which means that the verses and lines can differ in length as the poet chooses. however blank verse like free verse is also unrhymed but each line in blank verse has roughly the same number of stresses and syllables, usually following the iambic pentameter