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Dj Bueno Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Yardım Lütfen(Please Help)

Good Evening,

I just wondered whether my usage is correct or not..In one of my poems I said "I didn't my life to go with the wind.." ( a ghost says like that,it will be touchin story I suppose).. So is it ok if I I use that phrase?

Thanks in advance,

DjB
  

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Tired too I guess... You missed something when you typed in the sentence : 'I didn't WANT/EXPECT/WISH my life to go with the wind'. Otherwise I don't find anything wrong with comparing your life to an autumn leaf carried away by the wind...

  • Tired too I guess...
  • You missed something when you typed in the sentence : 'I didn't WANT/EXPECT/WISH my life to go with the wind'.
  • Otherwise I don't find anything wrong with comparing your life to an autumn leaf carried away by the wind...
  • A little bit of sadness and melancholy in there though...
  • Wait till you're my age : then you're wise enough to look back...
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Tired too I guess... You missed something when you typed in the sentence : 'I didn't WANT/EXPECT/WISH my life to go with the wind'.
Otherwise I don't find anything wrong with comparing your life to an autumn leaf carried away by the wind... A little bit of sadness and melancholy in there though... Wait till you're my age : then you're wise enough to look back... and laugh...
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Yeah I forgot to write "want"...Thanks..You say OK,then? (for the phrase)
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Hello DJ

The only problem is, it may remind the reader of the film "Gone with the Wind", or the emboldened phrase in this poem by Ernest Dowson (from which the film takes its title):

Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between

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