D. Students acting the parts of prisoners and guards
I think the answer is food
Ans: It is also talking about how the flash would lay hold on them , but given the fact the flash is not human, as said before, it is a personification. Edwards used it to explain that after death, for most of the congregation, that there was nothing but horror awaiting them bevause they had angeried God.
B
I'm not entirely positive, as all the lines in this poem seem dark and gloomy to me, but this seems to be the best answer out of the options.
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