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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: Imagery to Set the Scene 16 Views
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The primary purpose of the imagery in line 17 ("Be our eyes fixed on the grass") is to
Transcript
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Sorry Okay Keep it on Keep it on on this
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fine poem Question Let's just get to it The primary
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purpose of the imagery in line seventeen right there be
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our eyes fixed on the grass is to do what
- 00:21
call primary purse of the imagery eyes fixed on grass
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Well when we have our eyes fixed on something in
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nature we often slip into a kind of meditative stillness
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you know kind of zone out from everything but the
- 00:33
beauty of the scene before us Well the speaker feels
- 00:36
the same way in her state of mourning as she
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fixes her eyes on the grass going this case while
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the reverie is a bit more depressing So that's it
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It's a evoke a sense of meditative stillness Yeah loser
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role Well this line's part of the song The speaker
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is singing so it doesn't mean that her eyes are
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fixed on the grass and she's unable to move them
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like a zombie has gotten them in their tracks Get
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rid of beat Likewise the word fixed isn't being used
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to mean resolute which wouldn't match the somber tone in
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the stands like they were fixed on gays and that
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was having a staring contest or something like that That
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would more go for the home tohave a pastoral team
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like D Well the references to nature would have to
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contribute more to the overall theme And well there's no
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indication that thick grass being looked at is healing the
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speaker So get rid of ideas Well so that's it 00:01:25.65 --> [endTime] It's a a sense of meditative stillness
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