AP English Literature: Learning About the Speaker
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All right well the key lines here are the last
to look at him right there We'll just read him
for you for no extra charge One short sleep past
We wake eternally intendant and death shall be no more
death Thou shalt die Well the only way death could
die is if it weren't permanent After all In that
context the one short sleep is the actual moment of
death And waking eternally is the after life Right So
the answer to see and loser bowl well Speaker may
not love death but he certainly believes in it So
get rid of a He says that soonest our best
men with thee do go acknowledging its existence You know
that death exists It's around Its went after yet so
there's no indication that those best men are close personal
friends of the speaker Where that come from Get rid
of the speaker doesn't wish for immortality because well as
the last two lines suggests he already believes that it
exists So give it to be when he says that
death is a slave toe fate and chance it's a
paradox Like two doctors events can't be both fated and
occurred by chance people So it's doubtful that he thinks
death is predetermined So get rid of the right answer
There it see he believes in the afterlife Yeah well 00:01:34.44 --> [endTime] so do we believe in that