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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by bees what's black and yellow

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and flies at thirty thousand feet He's on a plane

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Check out following passage The lake isle of innisfree Well

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brian party hard in the third line of the poem

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the author mentions the nine bean rows and the bee

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hive for the purpose of what and hear the pencil

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and get the details from the land lady Oh those

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mysterious being rose and beehives what could they possibly mean

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Well let's start by getting choice Be out of our

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lives Our speaker is all about chilling out in the

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country and simplifying things so we don't give me bragging

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about how detail oriented iss that's more of a city

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thing right Yeah that's the kind of thing you put

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on your resume when you want to be the personal

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assistant to some jerk in a skyscraper tell you we've

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been there It's not fun We'll cross out choices a

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and b at the same time since they're both getting

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around in the same idea neither choice gets it right

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by including details about the bean rows and beehives That

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speaker does give us a better picture of the good

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old bee loud glade where he wants to build his

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getaway cabin Remember though that in poetry almost every word

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has a specific purpose or carries a symbolic meaning Don't

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give details for no reason That would be too easy

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Well choice he's The right answer The theme of the

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poem is the simplicity and peace we find in natural

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settings So it seems like the speaker hits us up

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with the imagery of being rose and a beehive to

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paint a picture of the kind of peaceful scenery he's

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jonesing for though personally we feel more peace when we're

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not paying in nearest warm beat Bees on a plane

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