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AP English Literature: Inferring About the Luggnaggians
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AP English Literature: Melodies of No Tone 8 Views


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Lines 11-14 ("Heard melodies…of no tone") are best understood to mean that


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No Okay people this is AP England and yes you

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are here Lines eleven through fourteen Heard melodies blab blab

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Abla of no tone are best understood to mean that

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What And let's go read them all Creepy and stuff

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heard Melodies air sweet but those unheard are sweeter Therefore

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you soft pipes play on not to the sensual heared

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but more endeared pipe to the spirit Didi's of no

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tone the actual recording from the ancient Greek reader of

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him really Throw out the poem Keep in mind that

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the speaker is staring at a piece of clay and

00:41

describing what he sees Yes they did not have MTV

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or the Kardashian's in those days Therefore the unheard melodies

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are the ones painted on the urn He implores the

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soft pipes to play on because they can play anything

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he imagines right Even the Stones You know it's opposed

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to those silly old pipes in the real world It's

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like reading Harry Potter and imagining how all the characters

01:04

would look compared to seeing the movie and forever picturing

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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Yeah been there done that All

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right well the answer here it's deep imagination is more

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satisfying than experience Duh and wait till you get older

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in real life name That'll really ring true to you

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All right Loser Bowl The speaker exposes himself you know

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as a fanboy of music when he says that unheard

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melodies are sweeter and tells the pipes to play on

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like a stream and baby dream on Fleetwood back Yeah

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all right that's a bit when he says to pipe

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to the spirit Didi's of no tone While he's saying

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that imagining the music is better than actually hearing it

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So you get rid of eat Not that the music

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itself would be tone deaf See get rid of that

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or that on ly Classically trained audiences should hear it

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So get rid of all those air wrong right answers

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The imagination really is more satisfying than experience Just wait 00:01:57.0 --> [endTime] till you get old too and cranky

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