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Old 06-Feb-2007, 21:39
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Default Re: Your opinion please!!!

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Originally Posted by asad hussain View Post
OK. Then could you please describe the scene in your own words, Bob?
The words are all there in the poem. As Wordsworth said in another poem
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...our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things;
We murder to dissect.
If describing the scene is what you want, the second is OK; but it misses the point - and the point is nothing to do with a description of the scene.

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