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Why does the author conclude that "What will survive of us is love" in "An Arundel Tomb"?
In the poem, the speaker describes an old tomb over which lies the stone effigy of its occupants: an earl and a countess. He notices how the stone has weathered with time, and thinks about how the couple's identities have similarly been warn away and forgotten. There's no way for them as individual people to be remembered, but they're still symbolically resonant. All that remains of their memory is this image of the two figures together—their love.
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Who do you think is the "you" in "Reference Back"?
It is not entirely clear who the speaker addresses in "Reference Back," though...
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