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The shift in tone between lines 8-9 is best described as


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Sorry Okay Pangle it people Here we go Next up

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I did The shift in tone between lines eight nine

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is best described as what That's a shift and there's

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eight and nine So let's think wealth the speakers all

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about the strength and impulse of the brook before it

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was covered by that pesky city He personifies the Brooke

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I eat it leaks like it's humanized which adds an

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element of romance But then the poem get cynical when

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he talks about the meadow grass being cemented down right

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like they turned life into a parking lot So the

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answer here is Be romantic too cynical and the loser

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ball Well because the speakers so jazzed about the brook

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an impassive or regretful tone isn't accurate Tow how he

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feels anyway The beginning uplift It has some merit but

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the intensity of the rhetorical questions suggest that really shifts

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into cynicism He's a Debbie Downer you know now depression

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that's way down Initial speculation like a there isn't doing

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the speaker's feelings toward the Brook Any justice He clearly

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feels some while some way about it and just lets

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that feeling be known So that's it The answer is

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because romantic law too cynical

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