Question 1 of 20 Click to read "I Am Offering this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then
answer the question.
Baca uses comforting imagery. Which lines have a more serious tone than
the rest of the poem?
A. when the world outside / no longer cares if you live or die;
B. remember. / I love you.
C. It's all I have to give, / and all anyone needs to live,
D. so it is a pot full of yellow corn /to warm your belly in winter,