AP English Literature: The Farm and the City
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In line 1, the farm house that "lingers" represents
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rhyme every other one on impulse in cold metal grasses
Pen it down in a basement in an hour An
apple treated so freely in the water Brooke was thrown
And even sewer dungeon fetid darkness Ancient math But I
wonder if you're going to sleep All right Well let's
see In line one The farmhouse that lingers Represents what
Nightline One Alright the farmhouse lingers though adverse to square
Does that mean well that farmhouse a building that isn't
typically constructed anymore is still holding on in the first
line It lingers suggesting it's been there for a long
time Back when the brook was still above ground in
the farmhouse Didn't have to What Where The new city
street So the answer here is C A refusal to
fully relinquish its past That's the right answer All right
Loser bowl When the speaker says that the Brooke held
the house as in an elbow crook Will the warm
connotations of Held implied the farmhouse and the brook lived
in perfect harmony with the rest of the poem sets
up in antagonism between city life and the brook And
these lines suggest that the farm is on the ladders
side because well of its long history in the area
right Well there are no clues to determine whether anyone
still lives in the farmhouse or not So all those
air wrong sees the right answer and you go farmhouse 00:01:41.74 --> [endTime] hang in there