On Being Solute by Jon Caswell Sea foam races toward shore, marking the tide on the beach, where sand and sea intermingle to create luminous pink bubbles. A colony of them floats on the waves with the aplomb of a bull-rider - only to be left stranded at high tide. Evanescent bubbles populate the beach in iridescent mounds, effervescing out of turbulence only to evaporate in the wind or melt back into the surf. Do they perceive themselves? Do they devolve or progress? Do bubbles aspire and transcend, or are they just form - subdividing nothing into something?

'solute" means a "substance dissolves in a solution. "which of these statements is the best explanation of this metaphor

A. A flock of birds dissolve into the light of the setting sun

B. The poet is comparing himself to a bull rider riding ocean wave.

C. Iridescent pink bubbles are created when sand dissolves in seawater.

D. The poet is comparing himself to a substance dissolved in a solution

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Shyanne Fields

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11 May, 10:51

On Being Solute by Jon Caswell Sea foam races toward shore, marking the tide on the beach, where sand and sea intermingle to create luminous pink bubbles. A colony of them floats on the waves with the aplomb of a bull-rider - only to be left stranded at high tide. Evanescent bubbles populate the beach in iridescent mounds, effervescing out of turbulence only to evaporate in the wind or melt back into the surf. Do they perceive themselves? Do they devolve or progress? Do bubbles aspire and transcend, or are they just form - subdividing nothing into something?

'solute" means a "substance dissolves in a solution. "which of these statements is the best explanation of this metaphor

A. A flock of birds dissolve into the light of the setting sun

B. The poet is comparing himself to a bull rider riding ocean wave.

C. Iridescent pink bubbles are created when sand dissolves in seawater.

D. The poet is comparing himself to a substance dissolved in a solution

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Kirsten Berry · Answer 1

The correct answer is C.

The poet is describing sea foam and its many appearances on the shore. The metaphor is describing the iridescent pink bubbles that are created when sand dissolves in seawater. In this sense, sand is the solute - - the substance dissolved in the solution (the sea).