Read the following excerpt from the poem "spring" by edna st. vincent millay: life itself is nothing, an empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. it is not enough that yearly, down this hill, april comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. which best describes the effect of personification on the overall meaning in this excerpt? a. it compares the emptiness of life with the arrival of springtime to underscore the contrast between the two. b. it makes an allusion to april being the cruelest month of the year to echo an idea of the poet t. s. eliot. c. it makes april seem to the speaker like a mindless person to emphasize the contradictions of the month. d. it compares the month of april to a babbling brook bordered with flowers to emphasize the fertility of spring.