What is one purpose of the simile in this poem?
the last scud of day holds back for me,
it flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the
shadow'd wilds,

it coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

i depart as air, i shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
i effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

a. to link two unlike concepts: mountains and burial mounds
b. to make an animal seem like a peer to the speaker
c. to make a connection between the speaker and the reader
d. to compare the speaker to a force of nature