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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?
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AP English Literature: The Harvesting 3 Views
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The couplet in lines 8-9 ("He was born…the harvesting") serves to
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Sorry Okay We're still on this excellent poem here Excellent
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ish The question Let's just get to it Couplets in
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lines eight nine He was born And yet together the
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harvesting serves to what What is it What's its purpose
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Purpose Well all right because the speaker's love was born
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in the spring and died before the harvesting But we
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definitely noticed the cyclical aspects of nature and life here
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Harvest time is usually when crops are reaped its their
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natural death when something dies before harvesting and then you
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know before its time that's sad and unnatural Well the
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couple it gives that idea some extra oomph placing the
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natural life cycle in the forefront of the reader's mind
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So the answer is d their accent the natural cycles
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Right Okay well loser ball The speaker's morning in and
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untimely loss of love and see there are definitely in
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play here but cycles of death or the larger concept
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that her sadness is involved with Which is why spring
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is mentioned at all Right Time of rebirth blah blah
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There aren't comparisons being made between love and spring Spring
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just happens to be the time of the speakers Misery
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So get rid of be there The harvest time could
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give away some details about the setting you know like
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a says there But the couplets is set on highlighting
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the natural life cycle that involves everyone including the speaker
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So that's it The answer is D is in well 00:01:33.11 --> [endTime] death
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