Throughout the poem morning in the burned house the speaker uses fire as a motif. What does this motif most likely represent
a.
in the poem?
The speaker describes fire she sees in a dream, prompted by a memory from her
childhood when her house burned down.
b. Fire conveys the violence and trauma that marked the speaker's childhood and that she is
relieved to have escaped.
Fire is both an element of destruction and rebirth, and it represents the passage of time,
which creates and destroys as it goes.
d. Fire represents the speaker's all-consuming grief over the loss of her family, who
perished in a fire.