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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: The Tone of Death 4 Views
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The speaker's voice can be best described as
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- 00:00
Sorry Okay Next up question will just get right to
- 00:06
it because we've beaten this poem to death The speaker's
- 00:14
voice can be best described as what Well When a
- 00:24
speaker starts a poem with love being dead it's most
- 00:28
likely going to be a direct train to Sad Town
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- 00:32
which is the case here Throughout the passage of the
- 00:34
speaker mentions the dying flowers the cold and grey autumn
- 00:38
twilight and the sad and low few chords all of
- 00:43
which give the piece a solemn and forlorn feeling like
- 00:47
a church organ there at a funeral So see Solomon
- 00:50
forlorn that the tone while loser ball resilient and empowered
- 00:55
like an Oprah revival A is not applicable because the
- 00:59
speaker never affirms her strength On the contrary she seems
- 01:02
pretty crushed is if she can't focus on anything but
- 01:05
singing Sad song So be there Stevie Nicks In the
- 01:08
later Eric peaceful and resigned like D A while might
- 01:12
seem pretty close but the speaker isn't really at peace
- 01:15
here She's resigned to a life without love or joy
- 01:17
which doesn't sound too peaceful Tow us She's also not
- 01:21
too hopeful Get rid E if she believes that love
- 01:24
is now totally dead Yeah she really is going to
- 01:27
get a lot of swipe writes on tinder so that's
- 01:30
it See a U
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