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Sun 30 Oct, 2011 05:24 am
Context:
A life cut short one moment makes one sight, Who would have known it's her turn next to die.
Once again context omitted! (Hong Lou Meng) I grow impatient with you, oristarA!
The t is an error. It's "makes one sigh".
Mean huts and empty halls, where emblems of nobility once hung;
Dead weeds and withered trees, where men have once danced and sung.
Carved beams are swathed in cobwebs, but briar-choked casements screened again with gauze;
While yet the rouge is fresh, the powder fragrant, the hair at the temples turns hoary-for what cause?
Yesterday, yellow clay received white bones; Today, red lanterns light the love-birds’ nest;
While men with gold and silver by the chest, turn beggars, scorned by all and dispossessed.
A life cut short one moment makes one sigh, who would have known it’s her turn next to die?
No matter with what pains he schools his sons, who knows if they will turn to brigandry?
A pampered girl brought up in luxury, may slip into a quarter of ill fame;
Resentment at a low official rank, may lead to fetters and a felon’s shame.
In ragged coat one shivered yesterday, today a purple robe he frowns upon;
All’s strife and tumult on the stage, as one man ends his song the next comes on.
To take strange parts as home, is folly past compare;
And all our labour in the end, is making clothes for someone else to wear.
@contrex,
sex drugs rock & roll,
speed weed & birth control,
life's a bitch & then u die,
so f**k the world & lets get high!
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
Once again context omitted! (Hong Lou Meng) I grow impatient with you, oristarA!
The t is an error. It's "makes one sigh".
Mean huts and empty halls, where emblems of nobility once hung;
Dead weeds and withered trees, where men have once danced and sung.
Carved beams are swathed in cobwebs, but briar-choked casements screened again with gauze;
While yet the rouge is fresh, the powder fragrant, the hair at the temples turns hoary-for what cause?
Yesterday, yellow clay received white bones; Today, red lanterns light the love-birds’ nest;
While men with gold and silver by the chest, turn beggars, scorned by all and dispossessed.
A life cut short one moment makes one sigh, who would have known it’s her turn next to die?
No matter with what pains he schools his sons, who knows if they will turn to brigandry?
A pampered girl brought up in luxury, may slip into a quarter of ill fame;
Resentment at a low official rank, may lead to fetters and a felon’s shame.
In ragged coat one shivered yesterday, today a purple robe he frowns upon;
All’s strife and tumult on the stage, as one man ends his song the next comes on.
To take strange parts as home, is folly past compare;
And all our labour in the end, is making clothes for someone else to wear.
Excellent! Thank you Contrex.
Where did you find this? Not that I did not want to offer sufficient context, I copied the two lines from a printed book (shall I have to type out all the letters from the paper book? O, May God forgive me!)
@oristarA,
1) What does "While men with gold and silver by the chest" mean? Does it refer to "while men possess many boxes of gold and silver?"
2) What does "speed weed" mean?
Plus, should "scorned by all and dispossessed" be "scorned by all the dispossessed?"
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:Where did you find this?
I copied the entire line and pasted it into Google.
Quote:O, May God forgive me!
I'm sure he will!
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
1) What does "While men with gold and silver by the chest" mean? Does it refer to "while men possess many boxes of gold and silver?"
I'd need to see the context, but I think it might mean "While men who possess many chests of gold and silver [something]"
Quote: 2) What does "speed weed" mean?
Where did you see this?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Plus, should "scorned by all and dispossessed" be "scorned by all the dispossessed?"
No, but a comma might be helpful
scorned by all, and dispossessed
UPDATE
A number of plants called speedweed (one word) are used as medicinal herbs. More context please.
Black Root (Leptandra virginica) also known as Tall Speedweed
Veronica arvensis (also called Corn Speedwell, Common Speedwell, Speedwell, Rock Speedwell, Wall Speedwell)
Oxalis corniculata
Many members of the Desmodium species
@contrex,
no
it's from the post on the thread that isn't by ori or you
speed weed & birth control
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
no
it's from the post on the thread that isn't by ori or you
speed weed & birth control
Oh right, the Guns & Roses parody quoted by the troll.
I reckon it's speed, weed and birth control. Note the comma. Speed (amphetamine) and weed (marijuana) are recreational drugs.
@contrex,
Thank you.
PS. I was just to post the following and saw your new reply:
The context is the poem in your first reply.
Bad repdahooodbruh has given us this very bad doggerel:
sex drugs rock & roll,
speed weed & birth control,
life's a bitch & then u die,
so f**k the world & lets get high!
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