Read the following selection from the poem.
We still talk about that winter, how the cold froze imaginary buffalo on the stuffed horizon of
snowbanks. The haunting voices of the starved and mutilated broke fences, crashed our
thermostat dreams, and we couldn't stand it one more time. So once again we lost a winter in
stubborn memory, walked through cheap apartment walls, skated through fields of ghosts
into a town that never wanted us, in the epic search for grace.
How does the selection contribute to the development of the connection between the
present and the past?
O by comparing the search for grace with the epic struggle of the speaker's ancestors
O by providing images of cold and winter that seem to freeze the speaker in the past
O by suggesting that stubborn memories never allow the speaker to live in the present
O by describing a people's experiences in terms of being haunted by the memories of ghosts
