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Texas EOC English 2: 2.3 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 173 Views
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by the beauty of nature Because
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who wants to think about the ugly of nature just
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doesn't make any sense are checking the following passage the
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lake isle of innisfree by yates warner brothers yates no
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that's not what the w b stands for is not
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that jumping frog Okay here we go The author uses
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the phrase midnight's all a glimmer and noona purple glow
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for what purpose It's online seven and hear the potential
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answers to illustrate All right so what's yates up tio
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with his line well per usual there's no evidence in
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the poem to support deep so let's get that one
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out our hair right there The mention of the isles
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funky lighting does nothing to get across the idea that
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the days are longer which is good because nobody cares
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if they are or aren't choice b doesn't make the
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grade either even though the line does talk about the
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contrast between day and night it industry there's a bigger
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picture here that this option doesn't grasp the same thing
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goes for option c the line does help paint the
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picture of industries dramatic landscapes and colors but big look
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great poets don't describe something just to describe it They
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almost always have a deeper purpose there just so so
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poetic Yeah joyce is the correct answer The pole mentions
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the colors of night and day to show that the
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speaker finds peace in the simple beauty of industry poets
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who are worth their salt Don't waste words or give
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details without a deeper purpose or meaning Basically they're not
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like that annoying friend who rattles on and on about
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something while our mind wanders onto the weirdness of angler
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fish or the disturbing deliciousness of chicken mcnuggets Yeah you 00:01:46.332 --> [endTime] think about that
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