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

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by the green If you're color blind you can just

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call it the grey there's No fifty shades joke in

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there Come on guys All right check the following passage

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The echoing green But we'll leave like the sun is

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rush rush old john little ones were nearly really rhyme

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shmoop okay Well which pair of announce best describes the

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mood of this poem and hear the potential answers enjoyment

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and grain on off Okay time to get in the

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mood of the poem To get a sense of it

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We need to have a good overall feeling for the

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poem If none of the answers immediately jump out at

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us well it might be helpful to quickly re read

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the palm with all these options in mind and alright

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let's check out choice Be well there's Some sense of

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loss in the poem You know old john and the

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grey haired gang are sitting around reminiscing about their lost

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youth And boy we know that feeling They're laughing though

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so they must not be too torn up about it

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We give them credit when we have to wear diapers

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again We probably won't be so good natured about the

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whole thing also while everybody does seem to be happy

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to be on the green and it's never talked about

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like it's a gift so the word gratefulness doesn't seem

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to fit choiceseat doesn't work either Sure the speaker does

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seem to be all about the green but the words

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awe and amazement suggests that he almost warships it The

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speaker isn't trying to recruit us into a green worshiping

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culture Anything so we'll just pass on see oh a

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green worshipping calls the might be right up our alley

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All right well we would probably make a case for

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choice De the speaker definitely admires the green and there

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is some sense of longing when old john gets nostalgic

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in the end though a is the best answer enjoyment

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better describes that carefree feeling of the poem well admiration

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is better used when describing a feeling of respect for

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someone also aging a specifically referenced in the poem making

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it a safer bet and longing It was close but

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we're going to go with answer eh this time around

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and incidentally this answer might be the last time you

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see The worst enjoyment and aging used in the same 00:02:09.58 --> [endTime] context Trust us Yeah yeah

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