Context clues to determine word or phrase meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.A

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Common Core: 12th Grade English Language Arts › Context clues to determine word or phrase meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.A

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Passage adapted from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring" (1921).

To what purpose, April, do you return again?

Beauty is not enough.

You can no longer quiet me with the redness

Of leaves opening stickily.

I know what I know. 5

The sun is hot on my neck as I observe

The spikes of the crocus.

The smell of the earth is good.

It is apparent that there is no death.

But what does that signify? 10

Not only under the ground are the brains of men

Eaten by maggots.

Life in itself

Is nothing,

An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. 15

It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,

April

Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

The bolded and underlined word "you" in line 3 refers to __________.

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