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From the Ted Talk by Natalie Merchant: Singing old poems to life
Unscramble the Blue Letters
by a horrible thing ♫
♫ Which raced
sywiaeds blowing ♫
♫ Blowing ♫
♫ bwnilog ♫
♫ May came home
with a smooth, round stone ♫
♫ Small as a world
and as large as alone ♫
(Music)
♫ For whatever we lose
like a you or a me ♫
♫ Always ourselves
that we find
at the sea ♫
(Applause)
Thank you.
(Applause)
The next poem is "If No One Ever Marries Me." It was written by Laurence Alma-Tadema. She was the daughter of a very, very famous Dutch painter who had made his fame in England. He went there after the death of his wife of slplamox and brought his two ynuog children. One was his daughter, Laurence. She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888, and I look at it as kind of a very sweet feminist msifeanto tgiend with a little bit of defiance and a little bit of resignation and rgreet.
Open Cloze
by a horrible thing ♫
♫ Which raced
________ blowing ♫
♫ Blowing ♫
♫ _______ ♫
♫ May came home
with a smooth, round stone ♫
♫ Small as a world
and as large as alone ♫
(Music)
♫ For whatever we lose
like a you or a me ♫
♫ Always ourselves
that we find
at the sea ♫
(Applause)
Thank you.
(Applause)
The next poem is "If No One Ever Marries Me." It was written by Laurence Alma-Tadema. She was the daughter of a very, very famous Dutch painter who had made his fame in England. He went there after the death of his wife of ________ and brought his two _____ children. One was his daughter, Laurence. She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888, and I look at it as kind of a very sweet feminist _________ ______ with a little bit of defiance and a little bit of resignation and ______.
Solution
- regret
- smallpox
- manifesto
- tinged
- young
- sideways
- blowing
Original Text
by a horrible thing ♫
♫ Which raced
sideways blowing ♫
♫ Blowing ♫
♫ Blowing ♫
♫ May came home
with a smooth, round stone ♫
♫ Small as a world
and as large as alone ♫
(Music)
♫ For whatever we lose
like a you or a me ♫
♫ Always ourselves
that we find
at the sea ♫
(Applause)
Thank you.
(Applause)
The next poem is "If No One Ever Marries Me." It was written by Laurence Alma-Tadema. She was the daughter of a very, very famous Dutch painter who had made his fame in England. He went there after the death of his wife of smallpox and brought his two young children. One was his daughter, Laurence. She wrote this poem when she was 18 years old in 1888, and I look at it as kind of a very sweet feminist manifesto tinged with a little bit of defiance and a little bit of resignation and regret.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| li la |
32 |
| la li |
31 |
| ooh hoo |
4 |
| innocent slumber |
2 |
| robert graves |
2 |
| nathalia crane |
2 |
| desert isle |
2 |
Important Words
- applause
- bit
- blowing
- brought
- children
- daughter
- death
- defiance
- dutch
- england
- fame
- famous
- feminist
- find
- home
- horrible
- kind
- large
- laurence
- lose
- manifesto
- marries
- music
- painter
- poem
- raced
- regret
- resignation
- sea
- sideways
- small
- smallpox
- smooth
- stone
- sweet
- tinged
- wife
- world
- written
- wrote
- years
- young