Which is the best paraphrase of the following lines? on some fond breast the parting soul relies, some pious drops the closing eye requires . . a. most people cry at funerals. b. the last thing a dying person sees is a loved one crying. c. every dying person needs someone to mourn his or her passing. d. death is more sorrowful for some people than for others.

The answer is C: Every dying person needs someone to mourn his or her passing.  The lines are describing the desire  and need of the parting soul. For it depends on an affection from someone who can mourn their passing and requires that their sympathy be expressed in their crying and tears for the one that is leaving this world. Not all dying people see a loved one crying when they pass.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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