Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1315 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Stand Still, You Ever-Moving Spheres"
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The idea
He orders the spheres of heaven to stand still so that time may cease and midnight never come. A man commands the cosmos, which is an apostrophe in unit seven's sense, addressed to something that cannot answer and will not obey.
In practice
He commands the heavens to stop.
Where people slip
Apostrophe, and it fails.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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