What does the phrase “the rose that grew from concrete” mean figuratively as used in this poem? Poem:
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s laws wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

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Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a. odysseus does not care about his crew. b. odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c. odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d. odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e. odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.