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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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AP English Literature: Main Theme vs. Minor Details 3 Views


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All of the following describe a main theme of the poem EXCEPT


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Sorry Okay AP English people last one of this Siri's

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on this poem We're not gonna miss this one Frankly

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it's depressing All of the following described a main theme

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of the poem Except what if it's not the main

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theme of the poem Speakers crushed The love she felt

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is a strong is death itself and all she can

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do now is make his bed among the dying flowers

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Well as distraught as she may be however she still

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has her ability to speak If the enormity of death

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had really overpowered her well and she couldn't have composed

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a poem and students would have well had to contemplate

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the power of death on their own time So the

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answer is C The loss of love cannot be articulated

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All right you lose your ball the wrong answers while

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the first line gives away how the speaker would compare

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love and death love strong as death is dead right

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So that's in the poem with a When she says

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that her lover died before the harvesting meaning when things

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air usually meant to die she's implying that he was

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taken to Zune So that's right to it's in there

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be Then she stays shadow veiled even as the years

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passed So that suggests that the heartbreak is forever and

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ever so get rid of d there That's in there

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And the shift in tone from sorrowful to meditative at

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the end shows the complex emotions involved in the morning

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There's all that's in there except see the loss of 00:01:28.95 --> [endTime] love cannot be articulated and we're done

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