In the poem I, being born a woman and distressed, the speaker views her frenzy as which?

• A. Irresistible
• B. Uncontrollable
• C. Resistible
• D. Inevitable

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is agency in the face of emotion. The speaker isn’t passive about her frenzy; she frames it as something she can hold back or direct rather than something that overpowers her. That choice of wording shows she sees her distress as within her power to manage, not as an overwhelming, irresistible force or an inevitable fate. So the best reading is that the frenzy is resistible—something she can resist or control through will, rather than something that must overwhelm or derail her.

Other options would imply the emotion cannot be checked or is inescapable, which would undermine the sense of self-control the line conveys.