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Eunjinny Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
A poem
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may be be shed
In vain;then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
"If we must die" poem
I don't quite understand this poem, especially the pink part.
Could you help me to understand?
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may be be shed
In vain;then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
"If we must die" poem
I don't quite understand this poem, especially the pink part.
Could you help me to understand?
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The words hold no hidden meaning, and the sentence construction is reasonably straightforward. Which words do you not understand?
- The words hold no hidden meaning, and the sentence construction is reasonably straightforward.
- Which words do you not understand?
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The words hold no hidden meaning, and the sentence construction is reasonably straightforward. Which words do you not understand?
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The words hold no hidden meaning, and the sentence construction is reasonably straightforward. Which words do you not understand?
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What i like to know is these....
then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained (Does 'be constrained' mean 'they are certain to do something?)to honor us
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Does 'be constrained' mean 'they are certain to do something?-- No. 'Constrained' means 'obliged; compelled'
Does 'though dead' mean 'even though we would be dead'?-- Yes
what does common foe mean?-- 'The enemy that we all
Does 'be constrained' mean 'they are certain to do something?-- No. 'Constrained' means 'obliged; compelled'
Does 'though dead' mean 'even though we would be dead'?-- Yes
what does common foe mean?-- 'The enemy that we all
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To me, this seems to be a nationalistically oriented re-working of William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis", which is one of my favorites.
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