The correct answer is the second option: The whirlpool is compared to a mouth, showing its menacing threat.
In this excerpt, the narrator is describing his disastrous and terrifying experience of witnessing a whirlpool with some other "men". To describe their fear of being pulled down into the sea by a whirlpool, the whirlpool is described as having a "yawning mouth", ready to "devour" (swallow up) the narrator and the men with him.
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Its the second answer
"it causes the bride to blush and makes her content"
as indicated by "she looked bashfully down; The pride o' her heart was beguiled" (beguiled means to charm aka make content)
The structure and purpose of each branch was devised so as to assure checks and balances, which provide another way of limiting government power and potential abuses. The Tenth Amendment notes that the states or the people retain those powers not delegated to the federal government.