Read this excerpt from Langston Hughes’s poem "Freedom's Plow.”The plow plowed a new furrowAcross the field of history.Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.That tree is for everybody,For all America, for all the world.

The “freedom seed” grows into a tree meant “for everybody,” suggesting that the idea of freedom can spread and benefit all people. The seed and tree are metaphors for freedom taking root and growing, not for farming or the beginning of time. Choice C, “the idea of people living freely,” best matches this meaning.

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