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Aand here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by poets comparing things

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to other things since the beginning of time alright check out this passage and [Ancient men and women in the mountains]

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[mumbling]

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alright well based on this passage what best describes the central theme of the

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essay and here are potential answers.... All right, let's go through these one by one is [Hand pointing to potential answers]

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the central theme of the essay the distinction between reason and

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imagination while the first part in addition to winning the longest sentence

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ever award does break down the difference between reason and

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imagination however the author quickly moves on to a discussion of poetry so A [Person writing in a notepad]

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isn't really the central theme of the whole shebang so we can cross that off

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now let's look at B does the piece attempt to trace the origins of [Nights sky of stars]

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artistic expression..alright well the origins of artistic expression do come

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up but the author doesn't make it a central theme if he did he'd show a

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bunch of examples and outline the themes involved in the process and a whole [woman and man with a dinosaur skeleton]

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bunch of other stuff so it's not B... Let's look at D and E, does the author argue

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that all people are creative at heart well it might be a nice idea but it's [Earth spinning and a light bulb appears]

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not really what he's saying and while there's nothing wrong with poets we

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wouldn't want a world full of them let's be honest okay so it's not D... How about

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E? Well E doesn't answer our question either besides being a little

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pretentious the argument that literature poetry are better than other art forms

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can't be found in the text, where does it say it, anywhere? please.. This guy

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seriously digs poetry but he doesn't have an unkind word to say about other [Man stood with a computer screen]

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art forms... Well so let's get E out of there what does that leave us with well [Hand punches man off the screen]

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option C... C says the essay central theme is to argue that poetry is vital

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to civilization well we already know the author is crazy about poetry okay you

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get the idea.. As great as poetry is however we prefer a real doctor over Dr. [A doctor with a young girl in hospital]

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Seuss and that's when we're sick, no antibiotics for that one, sorry.

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