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AP English Literature and Composition 1.6 Passage Drill 6. Which of the following most closely matches the speaker's feelings about aging?
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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Aging. The preferred method of gradually
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approaching the cold, terrifying grip of death.
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Which of the following most closely matches the speaker's feelings about aging?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Who likes aging, right? The gray hair, the liver spots, the adult diapers... it's no walk in the park.
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Although, when you really get up there in years... you do get to take more walks in the park.
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But never mind how we feel about it... how does the speaker feel about it?
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Does he feel that, because he is too old to be a knight, he is too old to be of any use?
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Nah... the fact that he offers to be the queen's beadsman shows that he thinks he's one old
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dog who's got room for a new trick... Does he believe that growing older is accompanied
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by endless physical and mental trials?
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What? No... don't put words in the poor guy's mouth.
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He recognizes that he's getting older, and shriveling up like a raisin... but he doesn't
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talk about these changes as being "trials." Is he looking forward to the day when his
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wisdom will be respected?
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Nope. For someone who seems solely concerned about making the queen happy, he probably
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isn't quite so... full of himself.
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He'd probably be just fine if no one ever recognized his genius.
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Does he feel that, though he is too old to serve at court, he can still serve in other ways?
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On the nose-y. That's exactly what he says in the final couplet of the poem.
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Just to be sure... does he feel he now must spend all his time in prayer as he prepares for death?
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Once again... prayer? Yes. For himself... not so much.
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Our answer is D.
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As in... "Death." The final stage of aging.
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