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Sorry And here's your shmoop to shore brought to you

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by needy neighbors were not above turning out the lights

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and pretending we're not home That's what we do All

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right check the following passage Time to talk by robert

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frost All right the point of view of the poem

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is from the perspective of what And here is a

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potential answers fire It would have been a neighbor all

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right to figure out point of view We've gotta find

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clues in the poem that tell us through whose eyes

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were looking The speaker could be someone in the story

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or an all seeing spirit who hovers above and knows

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what's going on and everyone's minds Incidentally wiki leaks recently

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revealed that a nationwide on evident narrator is the next

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project for the nsa All right let's start by cutting

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choice b We know it's not from the neighbor's perspective

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because the neighbor is the one calling to our speaker

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First line of the poem is when a friend calls

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to me from the road So our goal here is

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to figure out who me is there's Nothing in the

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poem to support choice d so we'll cross that one

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off A Cz Well it's A shame though we really

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enjoy the idea of a lonely neighbor trying to be

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b f f's with a patch of unholy ground that

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were option c also has a fun suggestion that we

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have to cut as much as we like the idea

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of the neighbor being buddy buddy with a horse that's

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carrying plants this isn't went frost had in mind Joyce

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is clearly the correct answer From the first time the

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speaker mentions the fields he hasn't hoed We know we're

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dealing with a farmer man This reminds us of all 00:01:34.788 --> [endTime] the fields we haven't code Be right back

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