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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

feel violent

1. If one says "I felt very violent" it means he felt that HE was vilent, or he felt some outer violence?

2. How to translate this "Feeling all this, how violent and the kind of day, i stopped and turned".
How to understand "the kind of day" in this place?

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1. If one says "I felt very violent" it means he felt that HE was violent, << Yes or he felt some outer violence? 2.

— Clive

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  • If one says "I felt very violent" it means he felt that HE was violent, << Yes or he felt some outer violence?
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  • How to translate this "Feeling all this, how violent and the kind of day, i stopped and turned".
  • How to understand "the kind of day" in this place?
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1. If one says "I felt very violent" it means he felt that HE was violent, << Yes or he felt some outer violence?

2. How to translate this "Feeling all this, how violent and the kind of day, i stopped and turned".
How to understand "the kind of day" in this place? I don't know. Just sounds wrong. Try to say it anot
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Samuel Beckett writes in a surrealistic style. It is all about inner emotions and patchy memories of a child of one day long ago, not factual descriptions. Felling violent is feeling a deep anger and conflict within oneself. He writes about the day itself being changeable - sun, then rain, then night.

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"Feeling very awful, very violent. The sky would soon darken and rain fall and go on falling, all day, till evening. Then blue and sun again a second, then night. Feeling all this, how violent and the kind of day, I stopped and turned."
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