19 May, 2016 (Week 13)
1. such a flirt (騷包)
flirt (v.) to behave towards someone in a way that shows that you are sexually attracted to them, although you do not really want a relationship with them
(n.) someone who flirts with people
2. "Sunday Morning"
"Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium.
*old catastrophe 古老的災難
① Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955)
Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
3. bored / boring
bored: I feel bored. 「自己覺得無聊的」
boring: I think this thing is boring. 「令人覺得無聊的」
4. Ode on a Grecian Urn (text)
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts.
The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819", which include "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "Ode to Psyche".
① John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
→ Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton.
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