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Which line from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden includes an allusion?

“Today as the news from Selma and Saigon”
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.”
“Here space and time exist in light”
“Here is the aura of that world”

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“Today as the news from Selma and Saigon”

This line alludes to real-world events/places — the Selma civil‑rights marches and the war in Saigon (Vietnam) — whereas the other lines are figurative imagery rather than references to specific historical events.