Which lines from the poem “Facing It” best reflect the narrator’s struggle between his desire to maintain control and the strong emotions that he feels?

The line “I’m stone. I’m flesh” shows the narrator pulled between appearing hard and controlled (“stone”) and being vulnerable and deeply feeling (“flesh”). His clouded reflection looking back at him reinforces that inner conflict. The other lines describe movement, a painful memory, or an image in the scene, but they do not express the struggle as directly.

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