Read these lines from walt Whitman's song of myself.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

What is one purpose of the personification in this poem.

A. To link two unlike concepts: mountains and burial mounds.
B. To make a connection between the speaker and the reader.
C. To compare the speaker to a force of nature.
D. To make an animal seem like a peer to the speaker.