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Hello!I would like to know what is the meaning of the "FAR" in the following sentence:"...When the voice of thy love shall call me to be thy slave, I shall rise to a greater far than the mastery Of life and the living, time and the mortal span:"Thank you.

Denisa 0610 · Accepted Answer

Is a noun missing  after "greater"?

Clive · Answer

The meaning is not clear to me. I wonder if it is a problem arising from the process of translation into English.

Perhaps the intended meaning is
eg
"...When the voice of thy love shall call me to be thy slave,
I shall rise to a far greater mastery
Of life and the living, time and the mortal span:"

Clive

Denisa 0610 · Answer

Or maybe,
I shall rise to a far greater mastery
Then the mastery of life and the living, time and the mortal span.?

GPY · Answer

It reads to me as if the words in that line have just been garbled, or an essential element has been omitted, but all the versions I can find via Google, even in apparently well-edited books, are the same. Perhaps the author thought that "far" could be a noun, meaning a far place?

Blue Jay · Answer

This may have been one of those occasions when the author was trying to produce a poem with good meter and rhyme that translates the original text as closely as possible and retains the sense of the original. Here she had to take some liberties with English to make it work at all.

Anonymous · Answer

greater far = more further

CalifJim · Answer

Denisa 0610I would like to know what is the meaning of the "FAR" in the following sentence:

If you take Clive's version, which I recommend, it's "much". "far greater mastery" ~ "much greater mastery".

It's strange that there is no evidence on-line that the verse is incorrect as written.

CJ

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