The answer is, something the reader has experienced
Answer:
B- Dependent clause
Explanation: An example : 'My father is reading a book because my mother is sleeping.' 'My father is reading a book' is an independent clause and could be a sentence on its own. 'Because my mother is sleeping' is dependent and makes no sense without its independent counterpart. Dependent clauses often don't make sense on their own.
Another word for influence is influential
B you would be able to eliminate a and c because it isn't true that it does have any effect on the meaning of the poem and you could tell that personification is used and that it isn't nonsense it's just figurative language