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The primary purpose of the imagery in line 17 ("Be our eyes fixed on the grass") is to


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Sorry Okay Keep it on Keep it on on this

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fine poem Question Let's just get to it The primary

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purpose of the imagery in line seventeen right there be

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our eyes fixed on the grass is to do what

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call primary purse of the imagery eyes fixed on grass

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Well when we have our eyes fixed on something in

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nature we often slip into a kind of meditative stillness

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you know kind of zone out from everything but the

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beauty of the scene before us Well the speaker feels

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the same way in her state of mourning as she

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fixes her eyes on the grass going this case while

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the reverie is a bit more depressing So that's it

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It's a evoke a sense of meditative stillness Yeah loser

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role Well this line's part of the song The speaker

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is singing so it doesn't mean that her eyes are

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fixed on the grass and she's unable to move them

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like a zombie has gotten them in their tracks Get

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rid of beat Likewise the word fixed isn't being used

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to mean resolute which wouldn't match the somber tone in

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the stands like they were fixed on gays and that

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was having a staring contest or something like that That

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would more go for the home tohave a pastoral team

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like D Well the references to nature would have to

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contribute more to the overall theme And well there's no

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indication that thick grass being looked at is healing the

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speaker So get rid of ideas Well so that's it 00:01:25.65 --> [endTime] It's a a sense of meditative stillness

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