Which phrase from “the second coming” would be the best symbolic description of the massacre at abame in the novel?

a) the centre cannot hold
b) the widening gyre
c) the blood-dimmed tide
d) a rocking cradle

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Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

How did the language of the gettysburg address differ from the language in the secondary source about this speech?