AP English Literature: Imagery to Set the Scene
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The primary purpose of the imagery in line 17 ("Be our eyes fixed on the grass") is to
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Well when we have our eyes fixed on something in
nature we often slip into a kind of meditative stillness
you know kind of zone out from everything but the
beauty of the scene before us Well the speaker feels
the same way in her state of mourning as she
fixes her eyes on the grass going this case while
the reverie is a bit more depressing So that's it
It's a evoke a sense of meditative stillness Yeah loser
role Well this line's part of the song The speaker
is singing so it doesn't mean that her eyes are
fixed on the grass and she's unable to move them
like a zombie has gotten them in their tracks Get
rid of beat Likewise the word fixed isn't being used
to mean resolute which wouldn't match the somber tone in
the stands like they were fixed on gays and that
was having a staring contest or something like that That
would more go for the home tohave a pastoral team
like D Well the references to nature would have to
contribute more to the overall theme And well there's no
indication that thick grass being looked at is healing the
speaker So get rid of ideas Well so that's it 00:01:25.65 --> [endTime] It's a a sense of meditative stillness