"... but hold it <em>like </em>a candle flame..."
The main idea of the poem is up to whoever, as poems are very subjective, however what I understand, the poem is about a forbidden love.
Ok you need it to more intresting because it sound boring
A: Thomas Jefferson was alive and participated in the American revolution so the match is "Revolutionary:
B: A Cherokee Indian storyteller in 1250 telling a creation story : Pre-Columbian, before the arrival of Columbus!
C: Christopher Columbus Exploration (the European Exploration)
D:An English colonist Colonial
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