In “heat,” which symbolic importance or meaning does the wind take on? a. the wind represents chaos and disorder, which the speaker fears and wants to avoid. b. the wind represents new life, which can grow to the heat of the sun. c. the wind represents being rescued from a feeling of being overpowered. d. the wind represents change, specifically the speaker’s desire to change her life.

The correct answer is D) the wind represents being rescued from a feeling of being overpowered.

The symbolic importance or meaning of the wind in “Heat” is that the wind represents being rescued from a feeling of being overpowered. The author refers to the wind as “Wind, red open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters.” The wind is like the hope for change.

The poem “Heat” was written by Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). She was an American poet and novelist, considered part of the Imagist, a movement of poets that supported the clarity of language and imagery. Among her famous poems, we find “The God”, “Translations”, “Trilogy”, and “By Avon River”.  

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun