03-19-2012, 02:07 PM
(03-19-2012, 09:15 AM)Leanne Wrote: That's pretty special, all right. I can't narrow anything down for me though... it's probably easier to define in the negative... it's Hallmark and anything Oprah likes that makes me want to do better (ok, that's not setting the bar very high, I knowwell! that depends on the gin count)
(03-19-2012, 01:43 PM)billy Wrote: Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899yes good poem ,
A response to the American take over of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
i now live in the Philippines and while it doesn't inspire me to write, it inspires me to think...which is often the precursor to writing
i sometimes get the urge to write after reading Carroll's jabberwok
but I can understand how a lot would misread the meaning here
Send forth the best ye breed—
In reality is not Ye for you/your but for the word “The” . The symbol Y was used as shorthand for TH way back then.. we have simply forgotten, and it gets used in the wrong context now
so it reads thus and Dick Kip erred but we can look past it, eh
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best the breed
go bind your sons to exile
Perfection changes with the light and light goes on for infinity ~~~Bronte


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