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Rubenadriaan Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

"Such as"

Hi I have a question about these lines from The Prelude by Wordsworth:

"I breathe again!
Trances of thought and mountings of the mind
Come fast upon me: it is shaken off,
That burthen of my own unnatural self,
The heavy weigt of many a weary day
Not mine, and such as were not made for me."

What does 'such as' mean here (I must say that I don't really get the whole last sentence)? And how does this "speak to the value of self-knowledge"?

Thanks a lot
  

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"such as were not made for me" means, in more prosaic language, "the kind of things that were not made for me" He is saying that the weary days were "not mine" and "not made for me".

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  • "such as were not made for me" means, in more prosaic language, "the kind of things that were not made for me" He is saying that the weary days were "not mine" and "not made for me".
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"such as were not made for me" means, in more prosaic language, "the kind of things that were not made for me"

He is saying that the weary days were "not mine" and "not made for me".
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GPYthe kind of things
Or one could say "the kind of days", which may be better here.
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