#poems

vocabulary:
🥀 despair: a complete loss of hope; the feeling that things will not improve.
🥀 elate: to make someone extremely happy or joyful. In the poem, “if not elate” means even if you are not happy or joyful.
🥀 parted: separated or divided from someone or something.
📚 Grammar:
“While” + Present Continuous
The poem repeatedly uses while to connect two things happening at the same time! It can mean “during the time that” or “as.”
“While nightly stars are burning...”
“While evening pours its silent dew...”
“While winter sheds its grief in snow...”
Here, while + clause introduces the situation happening alongside another idea.
For example, in everyday English:
While I was studying, my sister was watching TV.
While the rain is falling, the plants are getting water.
💡 In the poem, while is especially effective because the poet contrasts the speaker's sadness with the continuing cycles of stars, sunshine, winter, and nature.
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