Welcome to the Quote of the Week. As you know, because it is National Poetry Month, we have been featuring poems as the Quote of the Week.
This week's poem was one that I had to interpret and write a paper about in my High School English Class (Mr. Jarrod was the teacher). I was able to come up with something thanks to the help of a much smarter and wiser older sister but I was still pretty much clueless of the poem's meaning. I have an idea of it's meaning today but would be interested in what you think!
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Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower -but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view.
"We'll drown," he lamented without much ado,
and with a last despairing cry,
he flung up his legs and said "Goodbye."
Quote the other frog with a steadfast grin,
"I can't get out but I won't give in,
I'll just swim around till my strength is spent,
then I'll die the more content."
Bravely he swam to work his scheme,
and his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter,
the more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
and out of the bowl he gaily hopped.
What is the moral? It's easily found...
If you can't hop out, keep swimming around!
Anonymous
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Wishing you a most beautful day, wherever this may find you!
This week's poem was one that I had to interpret and write a paper about in my High School English Class (Mr. Jarrod was the teacher). I was able to come up with something thanks to the help of a much smarter and wiser older sister but I was still pretty much clueless of the poem's meaning. I have an idea of it's meaning today but would be interested in what you think!
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Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower -but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
__________
A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view.
"We'll drown," he lamented without much ado,
and with a last despairing cry,
he flung up his legs and said "Goodbye."
Quote the other frog with a steadfast grin,
"I can't get out but I won't give in,
I'll just swim around till my strength is spent,
then I'll die the more content."
Bravely he swam to work his scheme,
and his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter,
the more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
and out of the bowl he gaily hopped.
What is the moral? It's easily found...
If you can't hop out, keep swimming around!
Anonymous
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Wishing you a most beautful day, wherever this may find you!
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