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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...
AP English Literature: Dissecting Development in Poetry 4 Views
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Which of the following best describes the development of the poem?
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- 00:00
Sorry All right AP England people Just a couple more
- 00:06
on this poem right here Which of the following best
- 00:15
describes the development of the poem development Well first love
- 00:23
is dead Summer then speaker Seems Teo enter into a
- 00:27
kind of meditative state As she thinks about those days
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- 00:30
long ago she's gone from thinking a lot about her
- 00:33
actual loss to thinking Maura about memories and the implications
- 00:37
of love's death Let's ask her out Saturday night Yeah
- 00:41
so the answer is B mournful to meditative and loser
- 00:45
bowl well objective to subject of like a would have
- 00:48
you believe in subjective to object of like eat Aren't
- 00:51
Applicant is There's nothing particularly objective about this elegy The
- 00:55
speaker is definitely thinking about a specific person in specific
- 00:58
memories but she's discussing her personal feelings on these things
- 01:02
ambiguous to specific like See their may have some truth
- 01:06
since the whole love is dead Thing is a bit
- 01:08
ambiguous but the specific part doesn't really address the meditative
- 01:12
quality we hear later in the poem You got to
- 01:15
put all this in context of the whole thing Finally
- 01:18
we're not being beaten over the head with imaginative metaphors
- 01:21
and flowery language but we're also not talking about something
- 01:24
in a way that's firmly based in reality So yeah
- 01:27
imaginative too realistic No that's not gonna work either mournful 00:01:31.05 --> [endTime] to meditative That's the best one It's B bye
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