Explanation: "feels slightly foo lish about the events that occur", this due to the way the excerpt is written, since, it seems the author wanted to let the readers know that the narrator isn't s t u p i d, so that they keep that in mind, when they read about a foo lish thing said narrator did. If the narrator did something d u m b, then option A and B would be discarded, as would option D.
The poet compared imagination to a soaring bird because imagination is limitless, it can do anything and go anywhere, much like a soaring bird, who has the freedom and capabilites to do anything. Both are completely free of bounds.
A narrative paragraph tells a story. Something happens first, second, third, etc. Of course, narrative paragraphs are used in fiction as a writer describes the unfolding of events, but they are also found when describing any actual sequence of activity.