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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

Waïti · Accepted Answer

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...

Dj Bueno · Answer

Yeah I forgot to write "want"...Thanks..You say OK,then? (for the phrase)

MrPedantic · Answer

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 the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was gray:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

MrP

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