Question

this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred days panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diegos love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. what type of figurative language is the underlined text? simile how does this figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem? it explains kahlos painting as childlike. it suggests that kahlo treated painting like schoolwork. it describes the energy that kahlo brought to her

Explanation:

A simile compares two things using "like" or "as". The line "the hundred days panting like children" compares the act of painting to children's behavior, suggesting a sense of energy and enthusiasm. It shows the liveliness and passion Frida Kahlo brought to her art - the energy she had while working at her easel.

Answer:

It describes the energy that Kahlo brought to her painting.