Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. According to Faulkner, the poet is not just :__________.

i. a witness to the past, but also a historian who documents events.

ii. a force of strength and survival.

iii. a symbol of all of humankind.

iv. a leader in new cultural movements.