Read the poem.

Lady Freedom Among Us
by Rita Dove
(1) don't lower your eyes
or stare straight ahead to where
you think you ought to be going
(2) don't mutter oh no
not another one
get a job fly a kite
go bury a bone
(3) with her oldfashioned sandals
with her leaden skirts
with her stained cheeks and whiskers and heaped up trinkets
she has risen among us in blunt reproach
(4) she has fitted her hair under a hand-me-down cap
and spruced it up with feathers and stars
slung over her shoulder she bears
the rainbowed layers of charity and murmurs
all of you even the least of you
(5) don't cross to the other side of the square
don't think another item to fit on a tourist's agenda
(6) consider her drenched gaze her shining brow
she who has brought mercy back into the street
and will not retire politely to the potter's field
(7) having assumed the thick skin of this town
its gritted exhaust its sunscorch and blear
she rests in her weathered plumage
bigboned resolute
(8) don't think you can forget her
don't even try
she's not going to budge
(9) no choice but to grant her space
crown her with sky
for she is one of the many
and she is each of us
In Lady Freedom Among Us Dove wants readers to recognize that people experiencing homelessness in America are no different than homed citizens.
Which TWO stanzas work together to develop this overall message?
Select 2 correct answer(s)

Stanza 4

Stanza 2

Stanza 8

Stanza 6