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Read the following passage: "Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea." What is being compared in this passage? A. Ulysses's longing for his wife and a drowning person's longing for land.
B. Ulysses's tears as he cries for his wife and the tumultuous nature of the ocean.
C. The love Ulysses has for his wife in "his breast" and the love Poseidon has for the sea.
D. The sunwarmed earth and Poseidon's gale winds.

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