B. Trembling.
To cower is to be cowardous and back down from anything.
Answer:
A. I am fascinated by the different types of people I see.
This answer is correct, since the following sentences describe the people the narrator sees, and the other answers wouldn't fit with the next sentence. Hope this helped.
<em>She is about to disconnet by hanging upon him</em>. The whole poem is about an African person and the landlady who simply inquires how dark the person is, at the end she seems impatient and is simply about hang upon him -- <em>rearing...about my ears. </em>She couldn't be near him to strike him, if she was to scold the speaker there would be silence, the same idea applies if she turned the receiver away.
I think when he says "i have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground" he's using a metaphor, because he doesn't really have a soul of lead that stakes him to the ground.