In lines 45-47 (“Flowers . . . have theirs”), the writer’s use of…

DeanKnowledgeFlamingo9 In lines 45-47 (“Flowers . . . have theirs”), the writer’s use of…In lines 45-47 (“Flowers . . . have theirs”), the writer’s use of the colon primarily serves to…A. imply an unspoken perspective about the futility of growing older. B. amplify ideas about the interconnectedness of nature and humankind. C. assert that beauty lies more with youth than it does with age.D. expand on the idea expressed in the first independent clause.E. indicate a cause-effect relationship between nature and humanity. “Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and, at the same time, she arms and equips another animal to destroy it. Space exists to divide creatures; but by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers, she gives him a petty omnipresence. The direction is forever onward, but the artist still goes back for materials, and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage: otherwise, all goes to ruin. If we look at her work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition. Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward toward consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order. The men, though young, having tasted the first Line 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt; yet no doubt, when they come to consciousness, they too will curse and swear. Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”Arts & HumanitiesEnglish