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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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What does the poem mean?

Olympian bards who sung,
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young,
And always keep us so.

Does the poem mean:
The bards of Olympia sang the excellent ideas that are below Olympia. These divine/excellent ideas always think we human beings are young and always keep we human beings young?
  

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NL888 Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so. Homer here below (on Earth) wrote poems containing divine ideas. We read the ideas when young or with a young mind, and the ideas keep us young.

— Mister Micawber

  • NL888 Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
  • Homer here below (on Earth) wrote poems containing divine ideas.
  • We read the ideas when young or with a young mind, and the ideas keep us young.
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NL888Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Homer here below (on Earth) wrote poems containing divine ideas. We read the ideas when young or with a young mind, and the ideas keep us young.
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Thanks.
Homer sang the divine ideas, and these divine ideas were sung by Olympian bards as well?
(That is why the poet says "Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below")?
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Homer is the most famous Olympian bard.
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What? Wasn't he a human being while Olympia is a holy hill for immortals?
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An Olympian bard sings about Olympus.
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My dictionary tells me Olympia is the chief sanctuary of Zeus, the chief immortal in Greek mythology.
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Whatever. You're the one who didn't know what Emerson's poem meant.
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