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What is the best way to paraphrase these?
" And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed/ whips around, / the sea pushes through and rolls back--- / the rocks seem motionless"
a) The moss and the seaweed grow as the rocks are pushed back and forth
b) Time passes and the rocks seem not to move, though moss grows on them and the sea moves back and forth.
c) The sea remains calm as the moss and seaweed die.
d) The sea whips the ship back and forth, while sailors toss moss and seaweed overboard.
"As lightning to the Children eased/ With explanation kind / The Truth must dazzle gradually"
a) Just as an explanation makes lightning less scary to children, so truth should be explained gradually.
b) Lightning dazzles children, and the truth will dazzle them, too.
c) Truth is like an explanation of lightning to a child.
d) If the truth is told gradually, it can be as dangerous and scary to children as lightning is.
" And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed/ whips around, / the sea pushes through and rolls back--- / the rocks seem motionless"
a) The moss and the seaweed grow as the rocks are pushed back and forth
b) Time passes and the rocks seem not to move, though moss grows on them and the sea moves back and forth.
c) The sea remains calm as the moss and seaweed die.
d) The sea whips the ship back and forth, while sailors toss moss and seaweed overboard.
"As lightning to the Children eased/ With explanation kind / The Truth must dazzle gradually"
a) Just as an explanation makes lightning less scary to children, so truth should be explained gradually.
b) Lightning dazzles children, and the truth will dazzle them, too.
c) Truth is like an explanation of lightning to a child.
d) If the truth is told gradually, it can be as dangerous and scary to children as lightning is.