The correct answer is D) the wind represents being rescued from a feeling of being overpowered.
The symbolic importance or meaning of the wind in “Heat” is that the wind represents being rescued from a feeling of being overpowered. The author refers to the wind as “Wind, red open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters.” The wind is like the hope for change.
The poem “Heat” was written by Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). She was an American poet and novelist, considered part of the Imagist, a movement of poets that supported the clarity of language and imagery. Among her famous poems, we find “The God”, “Translations”, “Trilogy”, and “By Avon River”.
