Which of these inferences is best supported by the passage below (stanza 4)?
One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father’s cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.
Answer choices for the above question
A. Americans are united through time and experience by the physical geography of the United States.
B. The poet believes his father’s generation was more American than his own generation.
C. The poet’s father engaged in a barter system, trading surgarcane for other necessary goods.
D. The United States will likely crumble under the burden of future automation.
