WHAT IS A PLANTATION (based on slavery information)

A plantation is:

In the early 17th century, when the British colonized what would later become the United States of America, the crown offered large plots of land to settlers as an incentive for them to make the grueling journey to a strange and harsh new world. Many of the settlers who took the deal combined their properties into larger settlements—in the South, these eventually became plantations, given their focus on agriculture—with the wealthiest and most powerful men governing these microcosms. As these landowners needed immense manpower to maintain their plantations, they turned to slavery, importing captured peoples from Africa as forced laborers.

Explanation:

a plantation is an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor

Explanation:

c. is the answer to your question.

explanation:

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

- i.a -