The correct answer is eat
The main verb is eat, however, did is also a verb but it is used in order to formulate the question regarding the eating itself.
The author is using a simile to express how her memory has become blurry.
Would it be a song because songs can be poems and has lyrics.
The phrase that has a connotation of freedom and adventure is: "splashed on through the swamp"
Taking into consideration the context in which that phrase was written we can see in the words "splash" and "swamp" John Muir's perspective of life. He was a naturalist writer who loved traveling and who found freedom and adventure in his experiences in the wild life.
