Question

The word “harvested” is used figuratively in paragraph 10. How do you know it is used figuratively, and why did the author choose this word?

Answer 1

For with the careless bones of the young men harvested by the night and bindled around campfires were the similarly strewn steel bones of their rifle, with bayonets fixed like eternal lightning lost in the orchard grass.
The word “harvested” is used figuratively in paragraph . How do you know it is used figuratively, and why did the author choose this word?