Arjuna: The cited verse is really wonderful, I like it, but are you sure it’s author is not slightly insane?;) I have some feeling of it. Not in the bad sense.
Well, aren’t all great poets slightly insane? (0:
After all, as one great poer wrote,
Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye ;
Much sense the starkest madness.
‘T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane ;
Demur, — you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
Please tell, how you achieved such success in English? I think, Arjuna is the best. But you, Fomalgaut, understand all on the fly - great. I think, you need some practice, just like me.
I suffer from reading addiction since childhood, and at some moment I switched languages and started reading literature in English. Marking the unknown words with color markers, jutting them down in a copy book and recalling each 20-word block once or twice a day until memorized. By and by my understanding improved. Then, chatting with some English-speaking bookworms over IRC. Blokes from Greece, Britain, US, Serbia, Pakistan, India. That improved my English chatting skills. (0: