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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3   AIL 0224 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Why One Poem, Two Senses, Is the Lesson

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The idea

If a word could be settled once and remembered, this question type would be vocabulary. Sonnet twelve proves it cannot. The sense is a property of the sentence, not of the word, so the work is local every time and no list can be learned in advance.

In practice

Sense belongs to the sentence.

Where people slip

No list replaces reading the line.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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