I was going to write a review…but…
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I’ll have to download this when I get back tonight, it sounds fascinating. Btw, what’s ‘sex’?
Gwych! Diolch o galon! 
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Ah, a married man. Move along sir, nothing to see here.
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Couldn’t help myself!!! Lol
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I’m not sure what to do… I’ve read about half and really want to continue, but I need to get a poem analysis done for tomorrow. There is a 16% chance that my course grade will suffer a lot if i don’t do it well, but on the other hand poem analysis is difficult and boring, and reading is easy and fun.
Sigh… fine, I’ll go finish the analysis 
(Does anyone know what “He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep rides heavy” could mean? I think I’m going to die tomorrow. 
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Me too, many a word spoken in jest😜
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He’s not listening to you and it makes you feel sad
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Oh, wow, that makes sense in the context as well… I wasn’t expecting an answer
Thank you so much, now I can understand the rest of the stanza!
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Depends a bit on the context, but you’d usually see ‘yawning deep’ for a wide gap (usually in rocks, I’d say) - maybe makes it sound a bit like a mouth, in a meant-to-be-faintly-threatening kind of way. If it’s talking about the sea, it wants to make the sea sound specifically like something you can fall into (which of course you can), like a chasm. The ‘heavy’ on the face of it is talking about a boat or a horse or whatever hitting the ground/water heavily - so suggestive of tiredness, perhaps… [And o’er is over].
And yes, go finish the analysis…
And diolch yn fawr iawn Andy Lowe - good escape at the end…
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Bloody English teachers! I’m a mathematician…logically mine is much less romantic!!!
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And we’re up to 134 for today so far - which means we’ve got a healthy chance of beating the first day for the high intensity book (145), which is awesome…
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Err ground swallow me up
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Yeah, I have no idea… It’s “To Winter” by William Blake. I feel like the only lines in the whole poem I understand are the last two 
Thanks a lot and sorry for going so off-topic, I included the quote to try to show how annoying this is (to me) compared to how nice reading your book would be 
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Off topic…but this is why algebra is beautiful
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Then again in what other subject can you stand up in front of a class and say “now imagine I’ve got three balls”. Probability will never be the same!
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It’s basically:
Verse 1 - get lost, Winter! Go back to the north! Seriously, go AWAY!
Verse 2 - why aren’t you listening to me, Winter? No, no, NO, I told you NOT to do that. Oh, great.
Verse 3 - oh, yeah, now it’s Winter everywhere, and it’s COLD. Just what I didn’t want.
Verse 4 - LOOK how unhappy you’re making everyone, Winter. Oh, it’s spring, you must have been sent back to Iceland, as you DESERVE.
[For marks from a teacher, talk about how it is describing Winter as though it were a living monster instead of a season, for extra marks point out that this is anthropomorphism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism]
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anthropomorphism?
Has SSIW just launched level 1 gibberish?
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Wow! Diolch yn fawr iawn! 
I might have to consider trying to pluck up courage to write a review as thanks now…
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Ooh, diolch yn fawr iawn Mark, adolygiad hael iawn 
138, just 8 to go…