Within My Reach 5
I sit in class, hunched over my desk,
Searching for a solution to my math problem.
I am a heron, motionless in the river.
Waiting to snatch a fish out of the muddy water.
But no fish appears.
I sigh and close my eyes, but when I open them-
Magic!
My thoughts have become like a crystal stream
And the answer is a fish swimming close.
Just within my reach.
What does the metaphor in lines 3-4 help the reader understand?
01. The speaker wishes she were fishing instead of doing math.
2. The speaker is intently awaiting the answer to a math problem.
lor is daydreaming about what it would be like to be a heron.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

merry christmas to you, too. may god be with you all in doing your work and just living a great life in general! < 3

"solitude is an inner concept rather than an outward one" is the statement among the choices given that  would be included in a summary of paragraph one of society and solitude. the correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option or option "c". i hope the answer you.