Ambivalence: The coexistence of contradictory feelings or attitudes toward a subject.
How to apply it: Analyze how ambivalence prevents a poem from arriving at a simple conclusion and what that irresolution communicates.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Poetry III
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