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Martin Kmín Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Shelley
Hi, could you please help me with this passage taken from Shelley. I do not ask for any deep metaphysical explanation, it would be perfectly satisfying if you just described those lines in another words, so that I could easily grasp their meaning.
For such as he can lend—they borrow not
Glory from those who made the world their prey:
And he is gathered to the kings of thought
Who waged contention with their time’s decay,
And of the past are all that cannot pass away.
Thank you.
For such as he can lend—they borrow not
Glory from those who made the world their prey:
And he is gathered to the kings of thought
Who waged contention with their time’s decay,
And of the past are all that cannot pass away.
Thank you.
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This would have been better posted in the poetry forum here at the site. html
- This would have been better posted in the poetry forum here at the site.
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This would have been better posted in the poetry forum here at the site.
Also, have a look at the notes at the end of the poem here:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1879.html
Also, have a look at the notes at the end of the poem here:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1879.html
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Hello Martin
Perhaps:
"For people like Keats have a sufficiently large nature to give something of their own to the world; they don't have to borrow their glory from institutions that prey upon the world. And now he has joined the great (dead) poets and philosophers, who battled against the decay of their age (or their own decay), and who are the only part of the past that has su
Perhaps:
"For people like Keats have a sufficiently large nature to give something of their own to the world; they don't have to borrow their glory from institutions that prey upon the world. And now he has joined the great (dead) poets and philosophers, who battled against the decay of their age (or their own decay), and who are the only part of the past that has su
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