<span>The narrator offers the reader a rose.</span>
Lines 5-6: what is the distant look in your eyes?
Lines 13-14: what could have created such a scary creature and how?
Lines 23-24: allusion to God, how could God create something that is both beautiful and also terrifying and fearful?
Answer:
it's #2 because its basically telling us he published a book and how he got in trouble for publishing