”Var är citatet ifrån?”-leken

[Deodanders]

Postar hela dikten, så ni får ett sammanhang att gissa på:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

 

[Deodanders]

Tror det är English lit 101 det här verkligen, men kanske inte i Sverige

 

[JohanL]

Emily Dickinson var väl någon vars verk upptäcktes först postumt?

("And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost")

 

[Deodanders]

Simon & Garfunkel! Eller det kanske inte var ditt nästa citat?

Emily Dickinson är rätt i vilket fall. Lägg på minnet och läs fanvetja.

 

[JohanL]

Simon & Garfunkel! Eller det kanske inte var ditt nästa citat?

Emily Dickinson är rätt i vilket fall. Lägg på minnet och läs fanvetja.

Nej, jag visste inte om jag ens hade rätt, bara hur tankegången gick till Emily Dickinson för mig.

 

[JohanL]

Nu får vi se om det här är svårt eller ej. Själv tycker jag att det är lätt, men...

I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek. I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest recollection on the subject, is that of committing to memory what my father termed Vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me on cards. Of grammar, until some years later, I learnt no more than the inflexions of the nouns and verbs, but, after a course of vocables, proceeded at once to translation; and I faintly remember going through AEsop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second. I learnt no Latin until my eighth year. At that time I had read, under my father's tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates' ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.