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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Should there be they here?
Because "there" here refers to "angels of rain and lightning".
Context:
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Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shedd,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the Zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm.Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire , and hail will burst
h, hear!
Context:
2 ?
Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shedd,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the Zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm.Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire , and hail will burst
h, hear!Top answer
The locks of the approaching storm are spread on the blue surface .... > There are spread on the blue surface ... the locks of the approaching storm.
- The locks of the approaching storm are spread on the blue surface ....
- > There are spread on the blue surface ...
- the locks of the approaching storm.
- ________ This is a case of inversion (postposing the subject) and there insertion, a poetic construction.
- It's hardly necessary to mention that such a construction is of little use, if any, in ordinary conversation.
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The locks of the approaching storm are spread on the blue surface ....
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There are spread on the blue surface ... the locks of the approaching storm.
________
This is a case of inversion (postposing the subject) and there insertion, a poetic construction. It's hardly necessary to mention that such a construction is of little use, if any,
>
There are spread on the blue surface ... the locks of the approaching storm.
________
This is a case of inversion (postposing the subject) and there insertion, a poetic construction. It's hardly necessary to mention that such a construction is of little use, if any,
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