Read the excerpt from the poem The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Then answer the question that follows.
I shot an arrow into the air,
t fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swittly it flew, the sight
Could not follow i in its flight.
breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where,
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend
Which of the following statements best explains the poet's use of figurative language?