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"What are Years" by Marianne Moore. www.hearts-ease.org/library/contemporary/moore/1.html I'm having a hard time understanding this one. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkleg ( talk • contribs) 01:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
It may help you to know that in line 8 "encourage" should be "encourages", in line 9 "it's" should (of course) be "its," and in line 12 "accededs" should be "accedes" (and that, in each stanza, the first and third line should be indented and the last two lines should be indented twice as far). If one is going to violate copyright on one's Web site, one should at least have the courtesy to reproduce the material accurately. Deor ( talk) 05:34, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
My original judgment would be that it's a poem about accepting our mortality courageously. Just as a bird in a cage accepts its imprisonment and still sings, we should not worry about our limited years and in this surrender to time paradoxically find a greater power. Which is odd, because most Moore poems really don't seem to be about anything (except maybe about poetry.) -- Maltelauridsbrigge ( talk) 14:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
If you call some German in English, 'Nazi', do you mean his ideology or is it just a derogative word for German? Like 'Hun' can also be a derogative word for 'German'.-- 80.58.205.37 ( talk) 11:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I have, on occasion, heard it used to means Germans, but only by idiots. The worst experience was when I introduced someone in her late 20s to a middle class British man in his 60s and mentioned that she was German. The moron said "oh, you're a Nazi". The fact she was obviously born in the 1970s had apparently passed him by. So did the fact that much of her family had been murdered by the Nazis - she was left speechless and very, very angry. An embarassing situation. But such experiences are rare. I think generally in the UK if the term is used it's because of the person's politics, not their nationality. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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"What are Years" by Marianne Moore. www.hearts-ease.org/library/contemporary/moore/1.html I'm having a hard time understanding this one. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkleg ( talk • contribs) 01:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
It may help you to know that in line 8 "encourage" should be "encourages", in line 9 "it's" should (of course) be "its," and in line 12 "accededs" should be "accedes" (and that, in each stanza, the first and third line should be indented and the last two lines should be indented twice as far). If one is going to violate copyright on one's Web site, one should at least have the courtesy to reproduce the material accurately. Deor ( talk) 05:34, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
My original judgment would be that it's a poem about accepting our mortality courageously. Just as a bird in a cage accepts its imprisonment and still sings, we should not worry about our limited years and in this surrender to time paradoxically find a greater power. Which is odd, because most Moore poems really don't seem to be about anything (except maybe about poetry.) -- Maltelauridsbrigge ( talk) 14:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
If you call some German in English, 'Nazi', do you mean his ideology or is it just a derogative word for German? Like 'Hun' can also be a derogative word for 'German'.-- 80.58.205.37 ( talk) 11:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I have, on occasion, heard it used to means Germans, but only by idiots. The worst experience was when I introduced someone in her late 20s to a middle class British man in his 60s and mentioned that she was German. The moron said "oh, you're a Nazi". The fact she was obviously born in the 1970s had apparently passed him by. So did the fact that much of her family had been murdered by the Nazis - she was left speechless and very, very angry. An embarassing situation. But such experiences are rare. I think generally in the UK if the term is used it's because of the person's politics, not their nationality. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)