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Jan 06th 2012 12:25
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Do you like this quote of British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Shelley is one of my favorite poets.
I like his poems very much.
I look forward to spring.
I like warm and nice spring.
Do you like this quote of British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Shelley is one of my favorite poets.
I like his poems very much.
I look forward to spring.
I like warm and nice spring.
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I like a warm and nice spring. In everyday English we would probably say: I like springs that are warm and nice. [If spring is cold some years.] / I like spring because it is warm and nice. [If spring is always warm.] The way you wrote it implies the first meaning (spring is cold some years) and is also correct.
Do you like this quote of by the British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Yes, spring is always nicer than winter.
Do you like this quote of by British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley?
I like the warm and nice spring season.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Never forgot the irony.
The poem Ozymandias, meaning is very rich, there is a sense of the vicissitudes of history. But I don't understand in some places. Could you please explain it?
Ozymandias seems to have been an arrogant and cruel ruler. The poem says so:
"Two vast and trunkless legs . . ." tell that there are two huge stone legs standing in the desert without a body attached. Two things: desert means wasteland, not a verdant and prosperous land, and also the stone legs are broken.
Nearby lays half buried a head, which shows a mean and cruel frown on the face. this tells the personality of the ruler, which the sculpter knew well, but which are preserved in the stone.
On the pedestal are the words trumpeting the power of the king of king (a grossly arrogant statement), commanding the traveler to look upon his works (now a vast desert wasteland) and despair (that is, suffer the feelings of failure and loss).
Even so, there is nothing left of his "works" but desert sands, showing that nothing is constant or permanent.
This poem shows the heights of glory and the depths of despair all at once, illustrating the failure of arrogance (which the Greeks called "hubris").
Interesting that, historically, it is believed that the Sahara Desert was long ago a lush and verdant land, which became desert through over-farming.
What is "over-farming?"
What is "over-farming?"
Contrast Asia, which has for thousands of years heavily farmed the land. But the nutrients have also been replaced in the soil, so the usefulness of the land is preserved.
There was some over farming in the USA long ago, but there has been a lot of effort to restore the land and, so far, it has done well.
There was an English comedian, Frank Muir, who made a joke reading of this poem
"If winter combs can spring, befur behind"
translating from British idiom, combs means long underwear, and if the underwear can "spring open" in the back, you should put fur (befur) your behind (bottom).
What is "befur"?
What is "befur"?
Do you like this line, by the British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley? >since "quote" means citing something which somebody else has written, Shelley himself didn't write a "quote"---his line only becomes a quote when WE copy it. I hope this makes sense---sorry that I can't explain it better. If you absolutely have to use the word "quote", I suggest ...this quote, from the British poet...
I like a nice, warm spring.