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using the word found in a poem [closed]
I have the line:
Whereupon the new found its gallows.
In this case, could found double as "found having come upon" and "found having outfitted or equipped" and be used without having to used ...
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Can bacon or beans suggest some sort of alcohol?
I just read this poem:
The Englishman
by G.K. Chesterton
St George he was for England,
And before he killed the dragon
He drank a pint of English ale
Out of an English flagon.
For ...
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Difference between “dawn” and “realize”
I encountered a word dawn and I have a feeling I understood the meaning in context. For example,
1) It dawned on him that she had loved him.
means
2) It entered his consciousness that she ...
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What is the meaning of “pole to pole” here?
In the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Youtube) I failed to grasp the meaning of the line "black as the pit from pole to pole":
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from ...
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Meaning of “The most I ever did for you, was to outlive you, / But that is much”
What did the poet mean by the following lines?
The most I ever did for you, was to outlive you,
But that is much.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not able to understand the meaning ...
