Read the following poem carefully before choosing your answer.
1 The needle acts as scribe to silk and bone,
2 Retracing orbits that the moth forgot,
3 Where saints in faded indigo and stone
4 Are bound within a tight, domestic knot.
5 For hours, she mends the border’s ancient frayed
6 Decay, her fingers mimicking the dead
7 Who stitched their brief devotion in the shade
8 Of quiet rooms, with dyed and heavy thread.
9 She seeks to cure the rot of centuries,
10 To freeze the fading timber of their prayer,
11 Imposing order on the tapestry's
12 Old wilderness of hunters and the hare.
13 But at the margin where the wool runs thin,
14 A sudden, jagged slash of crimson shows
15 Not where the weaver’s pattern should begin,
16 But where the spear-point split the painted rose;
17 The quiet thread of artifice is torn,
18 And through the gap, the living scream is born.
Which of the following best describes the function of the transition that begins in line 13?
- disrupt the description of a detached, aestheticized recreation of the past by introducing the raw, historical violence underlying the artifactAnswer
- Bcatalyze a shift in the restorer's attitude, showing her growing resentment toward the original weaver's technical imperfections
- Csuggest that the restorer is failing to complete her task due to the physical degradation of the centuries-old fabric
- Dexpress the poet's personal sorrow regarding the inevitable decay of traditional craftsmanship in the modern era
- Edelineate a formal transition from the relaxed free verse of the opening stanzas to the rigid metrical requirements of the poem's conclusion