What is the metaphor that thoreau uses to describe civilized life in lines 49-54? hat is the metaphor that thoreau uses to describe civilized life in lines 49-54?

The speaker  wonders  what happens to a deferred dream. he  wonders  if it dries up like a raisin in the sun, or if it oozes like a wound and then runs.

The excerpt is really needed to give a definite answer, but i would say b. guarded, because when the settlers arrived the native americans tried shooting them with arrows.