Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0820 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"I Scorn to Change My State With Kings"
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The idea
The couplet says that remembering the beloved's sweet love brings such wealth that he then scorns to change his state with kings. State is the poem's own word from line two, now inverted from outcast to enviable. The verdict is earned because the word was tracked.
In practice
State returns, inverted.
Where people slip
The couplet reuses line two's word.
Your place on the trail
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