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What is the meaning of this line:

  • 20-08-2011 1:21am
    #1
    howsshecuttin
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭


    'full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste it's sweetness on the desert air'

    Cheers,


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  • #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    howsshecuttin wrote: »
    'full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste it's sweetness on the desert air'

    Cheers,

    Which part of it are you having trouble understanding?


  • #3
    FewFew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    What's the context? Is it to do with things going unappreciated? Or is it about beauty not needing to be appreciated? Or or or...


  • #4
    howsshecuttin
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭howsshecuttin


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Which part of it are you having trouble understanding?
    It all :(


  • #5
    howsshecuttin
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭howsshecuttin


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    What's the context? Is it to do with things going unappreciated? Or is it about beauty not needing to be appreciated? Or or or...

    It was a joke I posted on facebook and got it in a reply and I just don't have a clue what it means!


  • #6
    FewFew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    What was the joke you posted? It could be about not letting your talents go to waste, could be about a lot of things.


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  • #7
    howsshecuttin
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭howsshecuttin


    I got job in a cafe tomorrow,

    I can't wait.


  • #8
    Jamie Starr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Jamie Starr


    It's from a poem called Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (I think that's the full title) by Thomas Gray. I studied it in university. It's mainly a poem about death and remembrance. Excellent poet actually.

    It's hard to line that verse up next to the joke and try to extract some meaning out of it...unless the person who posted thinks you are wasting your time posting awful jokes on a social networking site, but that you're not to blame as awful jokes are a natural occurence on Facebook and the matter is beyond your control. Ultimately, your friend has come to terms with the way the world of FB works.


  • #9
    Daleno
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Daleno


    People troll on the creative writing boards? Weird.

    Anyway I'm pretty sure if you take the 'full' out of the quote it works well to make the point that though some people could have some wonderful and insightful things to say but only to have it wasted on people who don't understand.


  • #10
    howsshecuttin
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭howsshecuttin


    Daleno, That's what I was thinking because somebody commented underneath it ask how I could get a job and she couldn't as she didn't get it! Cheers for the help!! :)


  • #11
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Great line


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