Question

a japanese wood - carving by amy lowell
high up above the open, welcoming door
it hangs, a piece of wood with colors dim.
once, long ago, it was a wavering tree
and knew the sun and shadow through the
leaves
of forest trees, in thick eastern wood.
the winter snows had bent its branches
down,
the spring had swelled its buds with coming
flowers,
summer had run like fire through its veins,
while autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs,
and strewed the leafy ground with acorn
cups.
dark midnight storms had roared and
crashed among,
its branches, breaking here and there a
limb;
but every now and then broad sunlit days
lovingly lingered, caught among the leaves.
yes, it had known all this, and yet to us
it does not speak of mossy forests,
4
read the line from the poem.
now flying up, / their dripping feathers shining in the sun, / while the wet drops like little glints of
light, / fall pattering backward to the parent sea.
what does the author mean by saying \the parent sea\?
a. the sea is like a mother to water drops.
b. the sea provides a home for seabirds.
c. the sea is the origin of the water drops.
d. the sea exists to nurture animal life.

Explanation:

En el contexto del poema, se describe cómo las gotas de agua (que probablemente son gotas de lluvia o de algún cuerpo de agua que se evapora y luego cae) regresan al mar. El término "parent sea" sugiere que el mar es el origen de esas gotas. Las gotas se evaporan del mar, forman nubes y luego caen de nuevo como lluvia o en forma de gotas que regresan al mar. Entonces, el mar es donde provienen esas gotas, es su origen.

Answer:

C. The sea is the origin of the water drops.