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No Okay AP English people got another section for your

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big fat Calm Uh we're just gonna kind of cruise

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through it here and looking and just kind of winking

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at it first All right First question Let's just get

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to it The purpose of the first stands and lines

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one through twelve primarily to do what All right let's

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skim and mercifully there short I know some lonely houses

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off the road or Robert like the look of a

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wooden barred and windows hanging low inviting to a portico

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where two could creep one and the tools the other

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peop to make sure all is asleep They're clever Reimers

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Year old fashioned I's not easy to surprise Yeah that's

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an Aerosmith All right Well let's think about this immediately

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We're acquainted with the poems setting and the mysterious fellows

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that hypothetically linger outside the first stands There really gives

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a sense of the location within the poem and the

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fact that something sneaky could happen here So the answer

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is a there to create a setting of sense of

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intrigue Do they do that All right so the loser

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bowl here while sure we have a few characters being

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introduced but it looks like they're getting along just fine

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in their sticky business without any conflicts I'll get rid

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of be There isn't a whole lot of juxtaposition going

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on between the setting or the speaker's tone because well

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we don't hear much about the speaker's perspective So get

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rid of sea There's always an impending theme Get rid

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of the lurking somewhere in the poetry But again the

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focus is on this setting here clearly way more important

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than the lurking thing And we have no idea whether

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Speaker is lonely because well she seems like a spectator

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or avoid you're here or something like that So get

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rid of you So the answer is just a That's

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it It's a sense of intrigue you know kind of 00:01:45.91 --> [endTime] like why you're doing this video

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