The importance of Lucy Terry's "Bars Flight" is________________?
Correct answer: D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
- A. The poem's form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
- B. The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
- C. The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
- D. The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Explanation
“Bars Fight” records the 1742 conflict between Native Americans and white settlers near Deerfield, Massachusetts, and is valued as an unusually accurate poetic account of the event. Its historical testimony is more important here than its metre or symbolism.
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