The actual classification is very difficult.
<span>Strong is very open ended. You can be physically strong, but morally corrupt. </span>
<span>Capable suggests a skill that is above adequate. You can be a warrior that is capable but he couldn't add two single digit numbers together. </span>
<span>Mighty has the same problem. </span>
<span>I would pick </span><span>capable, strong, and mighty </span>
Answer:
Ebbs and flows in this context mean that human misery comes and goes.
Explanation:
The poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold, uses the term 'ebbs and flows' to describe how human misery comes and goes. Ebbs and flows, in the context of sea movement, refers to the coming (flows) and going (ebbs) of the sea tides.
We can say that though hardships and miseries are experienced by all humans, eventually, it would all go away, drifting into the sea as we continue to live on and experience more happiness and betterment flowing in.
The stanza referred is this excerpt:
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
