Read the excerpt from “a poem for my librarian, mrs. long.” and mrs. long opened that wardrobe but no lions or witches scared me i went through knowing there would be spring why does the poet most likely include this allusion to c. s. lewis’s book the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe? to emphasize that reading frightening tales made the speaker feel confident and strong to illustrate that the speaker read a variety of imaginary tales and children’s books to show that books were a source of comfort and imagination for the speaker to highlight the idea that the speaker relied on the librarian to find interesting books to read