Question

Which TWO sections of text in these excerpts from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway deal with the motif of water?

1. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, *the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;* chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the *smoke winding off them* and the *rooks rising, falling;* standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, "Musing among the vegetables?"—was that it?— *"I prefer men to cauliflowers"* —was that it? He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on to the terrace—Peter Walsh.

2. (June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. Arlington Street and Piccadilly seemed to chafe the very air in the Park and lift its leaves hotly, brilliantly, *on waves of that divine vitality* which Clarissa loved. To dance, to ride, she had adored all that.)

(A) the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;
(B) smoke winding off them
(C) rooks rising, falling
(D) I prefer men to cauliflowers
(E) on waves of that divine vitality

Answer 1

the asnwers are

-the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;

-on waves of that divine vitality

Plato

Answer 2

The answer is (A) the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave.

Step-by-step explanation:

The air was in the early morning; like the fold of a wave; the kiss of a wave.What a songbird! What a dive! For so it had dependably appeared to her, when, with a little squeak of the pivots, which she could hear now, she had blasted open the French windows and dove at Burton away from any detectable hindrance air. How new, how quiet, stiller than this obviously, the air was in the early morning; like the fold of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp but then grave, feeling as she did, remaining there at the open window, that something dreadful was going to occur.