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| cooliegirly wrote: | "...they fell upon him without mercy, xxx leading the pack."
"...in the contempt which they all knew he felt for them, and which he seemingly made not the least effort to conceal." |
The first one means, "They attacked him without mercy, and XXX was leading the group." (A pack is a group of dogs, but we sometimes use it for a group of people who behave savagely.)
The second one means, "They all knew he hated them, and he didn't even try at all to hide his hate. ...in this hate..."
"Contempt" doesn't always mean hate, exactly, but it's a close synonym. |
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| Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:26 am What do these two sentence mean? |
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| Yeah, I get it now. Thank you. |
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| Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:29 am What do these two sentence mean? |
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Another one though:
" That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is
the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats,
Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation
and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or
sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy."
I'm having trouble understanding the black part. |
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| Sat Jan 14, 2006 21:19 pm What do these two sentence mean? |
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| cooliegirly wrote: | Another one though:
" That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is
the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats,
Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation
and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or
sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy." |
This is very highfalutin language, but I think they mean that the first poet that touches a teenager's immature soul creates a desire in that teenager to imitate the poet's style and thoughts, and that even after the teenager grows up and is more sophisticated, he still has some of that desire in him. |
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