Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Beccatevi una poesia

Se qualcuno non conoscesse una parola -- difficile --, vada pure avanti,
non importa. 
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning: silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky,
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
(William Wordsworth)
Nell'ultimo verso "still" è un avverbio o un aggettivo? Direi un avverbio,
ma può essere accettabile una doppia interpretazione (quella dell'avverbio
essendo decisamente prevalente)?
P.S. Mi vien voglia di farne un file audio, ma per oggi il mio ego rimarrà
deluso.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Nasalization is just a part of life"
(Joey DoWop Dee on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese)

 essendo decisamente prevalente)?
A me sembra piů inteso come "immobile" quindi voterei per aggettivo.
Comunque proporrei anche Tintern Abbey come opera di WW (tralasciando i 
ricordi scolastici):
Five years  have past; Five summers, with the length
 of five long winters! and again I hear these waters 
rolling from their mountain springs with a soft inland murmur.
Once again do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs 
that on a wild secluded  scene impress thoughts 
of more deep seclusion and connect the landscape 
with the quiet of the sky.
Per il resto la memoria mi aiuta a sprazzi e quindi non rischio di citarla 
a sproposito, e sono troppo pigro per rovistare nella libreria alla ricerca
di "The works of WW".

 di "The works of WW".
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html
Ciao, FB
-- 
L'importante č che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
(Lucangel su it.cultura.libri)

 "to lie still" sia una combinazione piuttosto evidente per un madrelingua.
Aggettivo, senza dubbio. "immobile" non "ancora" o "sempre" o "tuttora"
-- 
The foregoing is my opinion, and my opinion alone. It is intended to
demonstrate modern American English -- colloquial and spoken, (but well
spoken) for the most part; not literary American English. Ergo, caveat
lector. (No, not you, Hannibal)
Oh, if you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.


Aggettivo.
Joe from Massachusetts

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In effetti la posizione dice tutto. Visto che è poesia, è pensabile anche,
secondariamente, il significato dell'avverbio ("ancora"), per quanto in
posizione insolita?
Ciao, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

 posizione insolita?
Sì, poteva essere avverbio, per quanto in posizione insolita, ma dal 
contesto, credo sia aggettivo... ossia, forse Whitman vuole farci pensare 
un po'...
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 un po'...
Oh, Joey, my Joey, you haven't yet had your coffee, have you? That poem is
William Wordsworth's.
Bye, FB
-- 
"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura"
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi on it.cultura.linguistica)


"And all that mighty heart is lying still!"
Immaginiamo un' altro sonnetto:
"And there that mighty heart is lying still".
Qui, "still" come avverbio andrebbe benissimo..
Joe from Massachusetts

 Bye, FB
Oh oh, I think I made a cup of decaf instead of regular. Forgive me.
I'll try again.
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I'll try again.
Uhm, coffee and Whitman... I've found only this:
"[...]
 Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffee-house claims him, 
The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard 
is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
he engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the
Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok
sound, claims him.
[...]"
Song of the Answerer, W. Whitman
'bye :-)

 Song of the Answerer, W. Whitman
I think you've misquoted him.
Read again, please:
"[...]
Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffee-house claims him, 
The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard 
is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
he engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the
Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Starbucks, or Hudson or Paumanok
sound, claims him.
[...]"
   :p
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