When you feel no compunction, you’re not at all sorry. The noun compunction comes from the Latin verb compungere, meaning “prick sharply.” When you feel compunction, you feel a sharp prick of your conscience.

a brownish-grey colour.

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Thee is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for ‘you’ when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the object of a verb or preposition. I miss thee, beloved father.

They are only used in some regional dialects today. They are all second person singular pronouns. ” Thou” and “thee” are subject and object pronouns respectively and both mean “you”. ” Thy” is possessive and means “your”. There is also the possessive pronoun “thine”, which means “yours”.

As Old English began to grow up a little, finally getting a job and moving out of its parents’ house, the singular use of thou began to change. The pronoun that had previously been restricted to addressing more than one person (ye or you) started to see service as a singular pronoun.

Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns. Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy/thine is the possessive form.

While “thee” and “thou” (and the corresponding verb forms such as “shalt”) sound formal to us because they’re associated with the Bible, they were originally the informal or intimate versions of of the second person pronoun, used either with kin and close friends or from superior to inferior.

The word thou /ðaʊ/ is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by you. It is used in parts of Northern England and in Scots (/ðu/). The use of the pronoun is also still present in poetry.

As others have noted, “where art thou” is literally “where are you”. But the most common place people have (mis)heard that phrase is from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where the line by Juliet is actually “Wherefore art thou Romeo?”, which means, “Why are you Romeo?”, *not* “Where are you, Romeo?”.

in the past, the second person singular form of the present tense of “have”: thou hast (= you have)

Answer: In the poem “The Voice of the Rain”, who art thou means Who are you.

The phrase, “O Romeo! Its literal meaning is that Juliet is agonized to think that Romeo is a Montague, and painfully wishes him to have been from some other tribe. Figuratively speaking, the phrase addresses one of the most sensitive and unsolved questions of philosophy: man’s habit of attributing names to forms.

Answer: Reck’d or unreck’d in the poem by walt whitman means whether you cared for the sound of the rains or not , whether somebody listened to the sound the rain made or not,it does not affect the rains and neither does it affects the poet.

The Address by Marga Minco revolves around the theme of crisis that we as an individual encounter in our daily life. War brings destruction, pain, and loss of lives which impact humans in various ways. However, this story speaks about the narrator and mother’s life how they are disrupted due to war.

EXPLANATION: The poet feels strange to hear the rain speak because he didn’t know that the rain had a voice. It is for this he calls the poem, ‘The Voice of the Rain’. Rain is personified in the poem. Walt Whitman makes it call itself the poem of Earth.

Explanation: the poet draws similarities between rain and music observing that the life-cycle of rain and song are alike. Both are perpetual in nature. Similarly, rain originates from the earth, and after fulfilling its tasks, returns to its own origin only to spread beauty, purity and love.