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Thank you We sneak in shmoop du jour brought to

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you by sidewalks We'd like to give them a shutout

00:07

for keeping kids off the streets Yeah good dylan check

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out the following passage the lake i'll of innisfree way

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say it all dramatically like they're kind of add some

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residents do it Yeah well we've skimmed this couple times

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so we're just going to skim it quick and we're

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thinking about a new no purple All right In the

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last stands of the poem the speaker implies which of

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the following all right here the financial answers thanks carries

00:36

a pain All right well let's see what the last

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stanza has for us We'll get rid of the most

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useless answer First we're looking atyou answer see no the

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speaker does not mean that he can literally hear the

00:49

waves of industry in the city If that were the

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case there might well be a tsunami type of situation

00:55

on the rise and industry and well that would be

00:57

bad And then there's choice d which takes things a

01:00

little too far though the speaker does seem to dig

01:02

nature replaces all over the city he never specifically bad

01:06

mouths his town when he describes the pavement says gray

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and sounds kind of depressing but we can't quite call

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it negative pavement is grey after all if he said

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that the sidewalks were covered with his shattered dreams without

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it be different Also be bad poetry wouldn't run option

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a seems like a pretty safe guess but the speaker

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never totally confirms it The speaker does describe being in

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the city and thinking about inisfree but just because the

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author loves in his free doesn't necessarily mean that he

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always wants to be there It's like chuck e cheese

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is that Way yeah Option b is the best answer

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in the last stands of the poem The speaker here's

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in the deep heart's core the sounds of the lake

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even when he is on pavement Gray he's referring to

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the fact that he carries the peace and tranquility from

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inisfree with him wherever he goes Wow portable peace and

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tranquility got a market that stuff on an iphone Yeah

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