Craft and Structure: What idea about America is Hughes trying to convey by including the images of the “steel of freedom" and "leeches on the people's
lives” (lines 71-72)?

answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."

your answer would be: d) eye contact