"... because she was a poet, and there were things in her poems that were in no way cheerful or easy to explain."
Sayfa 6
The perception of space was much affected by the introduction of two European devices for improving vision -reading glasses and telescopes. The first are attested as early as fifteenth century and as far east Iran, where the poet Jami, lamenting the infirmities of old age, remarks that his eyes were now useless 'unless, with aid of Frankish glasses, the two become four.'
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The classical Latin of Cicero or Seneca knew only a hard G, regardless of what letter followed. In the Latin word gemma (jewel), G was pronounced as in our word “gum.” Ditto for the poet whose family name was Vergilius (Wer-gill-ius) but whom we call Vergil or Virgil (Vur-jil). All had hard G. Classical Latin carried no sound “j” and no letter for it; our letter J is postmedieval.
Today the existence of soft G in countless English words derived from Latin—religion, generous, general, vestige—is due mainly to the intervention of medieval French.
Genel olarak inandırıldığımız gibi şeyler neredeyse o kadar anlaşılır ve söylenebilir değil. Çoğu deneyim söylenemez; kelimelerin barınmadığı bir alemde doluluğa ulaşırlar.
The Parts of a Poet (Şairin Parçaları)
Bir parçam toprağa
mıhlı, bir parçam
şarkı oyuyor, bir parçam
suya yayılıyor,
bir parçam gökkuşağından
bir köprü oluşturuyor, bir parçam
kum kertenkelesinin peşinden gidiyor, bir parçam
yargılayan bir kadın.
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refers to a poet
For as in outward things, to a man that had never seen an elephant or a rhinoceros, who should tell him most exquisitely all their shapes, color, bigness, and particular marks; or of a gorgeous palace, the architecture, with declaring the full beauties, might well make the hearer able to repeat...
