Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0846 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Structure Does Not Settle
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The idea
Locating a turn tells you where the poem changed direction, not what it now claims. The claim still has to be read from the words. Units six, seven and eight each made this point about their own material, and it holds here as the last of the four.
In practice
Where it turned, not what it says.
Where people slip
The fourth statement of one rule.
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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