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Sorry All right AP England people Just a couple more

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on this poem right here Which of the following best

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describes the development of the poem development Well first love

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is dead Summer then speaker Seems Teo enter into a

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kind of meditative state As she thinks about those days

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long ago she's gone from thinking a lot about her

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actual loss to thinking Maura about memories and the implications

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of love's death Let's ask her out Saturday night Yeah

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so the answer is B mournful to meditative and loser

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bowl well objective to subject of like a would have

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you believe in subjective to object of like eat Aren't

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Applicant is There's nothing particularly objective about this elegy The

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speaker is definitely thinking about a specific person in specific

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memories but she's discussing her personal feelings on these things

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ambiguous to specific like See their may have some truth

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since the whole love is dead Thing is a bit

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ambiguous but the specific part doesn't really address the meditative

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quality we hear later in the poem You got to

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put all this in context of the whole thing Finally

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we're not being beaten over the head with imaginative metaphors

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and flowery language but we're also not talking about something

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in a way that's firmly based in reality So yeah

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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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