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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by american poetry The best english poetry on this side

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of the pond Check out phone All right the phrase

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a meaning walk suggests that the neighbor what and hear

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the potential answer for my actions course All right a

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lot of times old school literature is full of old

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school phrases that we might not get immediately Also poetry

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in general is packed with unconventional word choices which poets

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used to be all poetic and stuff Good news is

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we don't have to be experts in old school phrases

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or be poetic genius is jeannie i understand what's going

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on here a little investigation into context clues will save

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us even if we've never heard somebody describe a horse's

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pace as a meaning walk waken definitely next choice eh

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there's absolutely no evidence in the poem that the horse

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and his rider are going in the wrong direction that

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we did hear that the other farmers think fun on

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this guy for his obsession with one direction choice see

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is also rejected The poem doesn't mention anything about how

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the neighbor usually gets home and anyway he's writing a

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force not walking soc is way off the mark Unless

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of course it means that the horse doesn't usually walk

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home well that would be crazy Too because like what

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the horse usually rides the neighbor home the food be

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weird okay we've officially spent too much time thinking about

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this one The poem also proves answered the wrong The

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speaker directly tells us that he sees the neighbor slowing

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the horse down to a meaning lock so unless the

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speaker's a liar we're sure he is a no go

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correct answer is b Word meaning reminds us of the

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word meaningful and makes us think that neighbor is slowing

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his horse down very purposely like he has something important

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to say Unfortunately the poem ends before you can find

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out what the important thing is Wow thanks robert for

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us for stringing us along without a solid payoff Oh

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well this we didn't put his much time into This

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is we did watching the last six seasons of lost

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