What exactly does this quote mean: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore ye...?
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It's an expression of the whole thesis of the poem -- "Thou still-unravished bride of quietness," etc.  Throughout the "Ode," Keats asserts that it's the imagination, not our expression of it, that is the most powerful.  (And of course, the irony is that this is one of the greatest expressions of imagination ever put to words.)\n\nThe idea is that a "heard melody" -- that is, music you hear -- may be sweet, but an "unheard melody" -- music you only imagine -- can be as sweet as your imagination wills it to be.  Keats took the notion from the paintings on a piece of Greek pottery, the figure of a man playing a syrinx (pipes of Pan) to a woman; because it's just an image of someone playing music, you can't hear what he was playing, but you can IMAGINE it to be as beautiful as you wish.\n\nThe middle and later portion of the "Ode" deals with another classical theme, that life is short and art endures -- the figures on the urn are "forever panting and forever young," while passion among the living leaves one with a heart "high-sorrowful and cloyed."  (To cloy, if it's an unfamiliar word, means to consume too much of something sweet, and by extension to have too much of any pleasure.)\n\nOne other phrase that gives modern readers fits:\n\n"O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede\nOf marble men and maidens overwrought..."\n\nIn this case, "Attic" is an ancient name for Greece; "attitude" doesn't refer to copping a 'tude, but to the angle and posture of the urn itself; "brede" is an old word for an embroidered pattern such as one might see on a tapestry; and "overwrought" in this case doesn't mean emotionally overwrought, but rather that the urn itself has been overlaid with a pattern, like a tapestry, of marble men and maidens.  \n\nFor my money, the key line in the poem, though, is:\n\n"...in midst of other woe/Than ours..."\n\nThat captures the ability shared by all great art -- music, literature, drama, sculpture, painting -- to pull me out of whatever funk I'm in at the moment, whatever piddling, temporary example of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to that I am suffering, and remind me, as Keats says, that\n\n"Beauty is truth, truth beauty: that is all\nYe know on earth, and all ye need to know."\n\nThanks for asking. :-)
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It means a quotation or saying
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It means, that taking into consideration the words quoted, you can improve the topics mentioned in the quote. For example, if I tell you: "All men were created equals and should be trated as equals, you can "build" on these words by saying,eg, "doesn't matter if a person is black or white, should have the same rights.
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to understand the quote you might need to see the whole thing:\n"[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."\n\nI think it means that you have the freedom to be different about things that matter to you the most or something I really don't know haha but there's the whole quote maybe that will help
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It came from a song in Mary Poppins about a boy who was afraid to speak and then he discovered this wonderful word.\n\n"If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious!"\n\nThe meaning is just super or superb. But it's a cool word. :)
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Music is just that, music.  It has no meaning other then what we give it.  I'm sure there's as many opinions about music as what there is people!\n\nNow, if you add words to that music... That gives the music meaning!  \n\nWords that glorify God is great music to his ears no matter what style it may be.  He doesn't care what it sounds like, he's listening to the messege it is sending out and the looking into the hearts of those sending it.  As long as the messege is a God-sent messege and it's sent with a loving heart, I Loves it!  We might not like the style of music the messege is put into but that doesn't give us the right to say that, that style of music is wrong.  We all praise and worship God in our own ways.  As long as it truly is praising God, style doesn't matter.
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Music...i think the music is more important than the lyrics. the music tells the mood...
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"I'm not saying that what you're stupid. I'm just saying that what you're saying is stupid"\n\n"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear smart until you hear them speak"
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I guess you have to know the context in which it was said. i.e. insultingly? as a compliment? \n\nIs the glass of water half empty or half full? Well, I'll answer the question positively. I'd say that when you fall in love at the age of ten, we are still quite innocent and that whole experience is new and enjoyable. It's like discovering something new that nobody else knows about - like a secret garden. So hopefully that's how this person views turning to you.\n\nIf it was a negative statement, it must've meant that they feel they turned to you naively and feel that it was inevitable that you would hurt the person concerned.\n\nI guess you'll have to draw your own conclusions from these answers.\n\nI like to think the person was speaking positively - it does sound like a line though...probably from a person that has a preconceived view of you similar to your imprint about guitar players. Does that add up?
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hears one.\n\n"When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. " -- Kahlil Gibran
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Song titles have quotation around them.\n\nChow!!
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In the poem "Music I Heard", written by Conrad Aiken, the love expressed is different. The character of the poem is a man, that is speaking about his loved one. Full of memories, he has flashbacks of when the loved one was around him and his belongings. After the loved person left, he is lonely. The memories are coming back to him in the quote (line #5), " Your hands one touched this table and this silver". He misses her and the good times they had together. He wants to have her come back to him. She is now only in his heart full of past memories.\n\nThe feeling that love brings in this poem is sadness. The sadness of missing the loved one is great. He is lonely and full of memories that still light up his hopes for having her come back. He remembers her actions and what she touched, but only the memories are left. The sadness is expressed in this quote (line # 3-4) by the character. "Now that I am without you all is desolate;/ and all that was once so beautiful is dead." He misses her a lot, and does not like things that much as he did when she was around.
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hmm to be or not to be is not from romeo and juliet. anyways, my favorite qoute is "parting is such sweet sorrow". I like it because of the oxymoron "sweet sorrow", how can sorrow ever be sweet? But it best describes the experience of two lovers parting in few words.
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eh??? what does that mean?
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Contradictory statements, like:\ntight slacks\nRap music (I personally like that one :D)
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Title: Artist: KENNY ROGERS Song: Sweet Music Man\nBut nobody sings a love song quite like you do \nand nobody else could make me sing along \nand nobody else could make me feel \nthat things are right when I know they’re wrong \n( that things are right when you’re wrong with the song ) \nnobody sings a love song quite like you.\nI typed some of your lyrics in and put the word lyrics to find it as music "Sing the songs nobody sings, lyrics" - in search bar - and this is the best I could come up with.  \nHow much more do you remember?\nWhere did you hear it?\nDo you remember a repeated verse - a chores verse?\nWho might have sung it?\nWhat type of music did it sound like - rap, pop, ect.?\nrayouko_firefervor@yahoo.com      <= this is me\nYou can try what I did - typing a part and then putting lyrics afterword, or you can give me an email and I will see what I can do.  Make sure I can email you back to say if I can even help.\nDon't make it a hobby to email me - I almost NEVER sign on.
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becoz chocolety cant be so melody\n   .......hi