Which of the following selections best explains what happens in the second-to-last stanza of the poem? and there sat sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar; and he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: " close that door. it’s fine in here, but i greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm— since i left plumtree, down in tennessee, it’s the first time i’ve been warm."
a. sam mcgee was still alive when the speaker cremated him.
b. sam mcgee never existed, and was actually a figment of the speaker’s imagination.
c. the speaker and sam mcgee are actually the same person.
d. the speaker may be going mad from his time spent in the brutal arctic wilderness.