Read the following passage from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" and answer the question.

You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house,

though you built it, or though it has been built for you.

Out of the dark confinement! out from behind the screen!

Which sentence best paraphrases the passage above?

Wake up and quit wasting time inside. Get outside and into the light!

Stay inside! It is safer and wiser.

Keep sleeping so that you may dream of a better world.

Quit wasting time! Close the screen and then close the door.

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Rudy Booker

19 July, 07:33

Read the following passage from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" and answer the question.

You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house,

though you built it, or though it has been built for you.

Out of the dark confinement! out from behind the screen!

Which sentence best paraphrases the passage above?

Wake up and quit wasting time inside. Get outside and into the light!

Stay inside! It is safer and wiser.

Keep sleeping so that you may dream of a better world.

Quit wasting time! Close the screen and then close the door.

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Emerson Adams · Answer 1

The first sentence best paraphrases the passage because the text mentions escaping the dark confinement which symbolizes isolation and loneliness. The first sentence accurately paraphrases the passage's message to live life and not spend all of one's days inside a house.