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What is a valediction anyway? What is a high school valedictorian?
 
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Explain the reference to astronomy in the third stanza.
 
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  • The dictionary defines valediction as a speech or a statement made as a farewell. Valedictorian is defined as The student with the highest academic rank in a class who delivers the valedictory at graduation.



Answer to Question 2

Earthquakes shake, rattle, and roll; Ptolemaic spheres revolve gently and harmlessly. This takes us to the notion of sublunary lovers in stanza 4. In the medieval cosmos, the heavenly bodies are fixed and permanent, while everything under the moon is subject to change.



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