How does the poet use the story of Pandora's box in this poem? A) The speaker feels like she is a Pandora's Box filled with confidence, joy, and strength. B) The speaker compares her hospital to Pandora's Box because it heals so many people of diseases. C) The speaker thinks of the medical system in America as a Pandora's Box, filled with inefficiency and waste. D) The speaker compares the patient's body, which is filled with cancer, with Pandora's box which was filled with all kinds of evil.

The best answer is "D"

The speaker compares the patient's body, which is filled with cancer, with Pandora's box which was filled with all kinds of evil.

Explanation:

To quote the paradox box verbatim;

"Out of the box flew every kind of trouble that people had never known about before: sicknesses, and worries, and crimes, and hate and envy and all sorts of bad things. The bad things all began to fly away like little bugs, all over the place."

These compares the patient's body, which is filled with cancer.