Read these lines from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself":
depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
What is one purpose of the personification in this poem?
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A. To portray a force of nature as something that runs from humans
B. To give humanlike qualities to sand dunes and the sea
C. To paint a picture in the reader's mind of a decaying body
D. To make a connection between the speaker and the reader