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TSI Reading: Understanding Symbolism in Poetry 28 Views
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Description:
The "purple and yellow crocuses" symbolize the
(A)speaker's garden at home
(B)vibrant dreams of the speaker
(C)way night soothes people
(D)connection to the past
Transcript
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Yeah okay Reading shmoop er's Second of two on this
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poem solitaire and let's Just go right to the question
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because we've been a while reading it before the purple
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and yellow croak asses symbolized the what All right Uh
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crocuses or a flower on thinking about their purple and
Full Transcript
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yellow So maybe there were thing from yahoo or the
- 00:26
minnesota vikings Or maybe not All right Where are they
- 00:28
The speaker's garden at home Vibrant dreams through That would
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be cool Way night sues people That's Weird connection to
- 00:36
the past All right well poetry's all that saying something
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without actually saying it right it's like you think politicians
- 00:41
and poets ever struggled with an infuriating bout of insomnia
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Well in essence the speaker is describing the way her
- 00:49
mind wanders at bedtime Instead of simply telling us that
- 00:52
her mind races at night she describes her mind as
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a person going on a little adventure through town At
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one point her mind dances with purple and yellow crocuses
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in its hair And like the well known visions of
- 01:06
sugar plums from you know it was the night before
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christmas Well this line symbolizes the speaker's fanciful dreams So
- 01:13
it's be vibrant dreams of the speaker Yeah it's kind
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of cool Alright loser ball here While you have no
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indication of these flowers come from the speakers hardens We
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doubt her mind would be dancing around It all is
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bigger Win a calm soothing sleep so it's reasonable to
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think that a person might contemplate the past at nighttime
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the speaker doesn't seem to be referencing or past here
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at all So it's None of those The answers be
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vibrant dreams at night So you have those injuries Come 00:01:38.261 --> [endTime] on
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