THE ARROW AND THE SONG

တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်း ကဗျာလေးတွေကို သေသေချာချာ ကျက်မှတ်ထားမယ်ဆိုရင် အနည်းဆုံး (၅)မှတ်ကနေ (၇)မှတ်အထိ သေချာတာကြောင့် ဒီနှစ်မှ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းတက်မယ့်မောင်ငယ်ညီမငယ်လေးများသာမက၊ အင်္ဂလိပ်စာလေ့လာလိုသူများအတွက်ပါ အကျိုးရှိစေမယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ပါတယ်။

THE ARROW AND THE SONG

I shot an arrow into the air __

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, who has sight so keen and strong,

That it could follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]

Words and Phrases for "THE ARROW AND THE SONG"
swiftly = quickly = rapidly = too fast = လျင်မြန်စွာ။
pace = keep in pace with = follow = အမှီလိုက်သည်။
breathed = sing = sang = အသက်ရှူခဲ့သည်၊ သီချင်းဆိုခဲ့သည်။
keen = sharp = စူးရှသော၊ထက်မြက်သော၊စိတ်ထားထက်သန်သော။
float away = လွင့်မျောသွားသည်။
faded away = disappear = တဖြည်းဖြည်းနှင့်ပျောက်ကွယ်သွားသည်။
echo = resound = ပဲ့တင်ထပ်သည်၊ အသံထပ်သည်၊ ပဲ့တင်သံထပ်သည်။
sensible = can be known = သိမြင်တွေးတော၊ဆင်ခြင်ဆုံးဖြတ်နိုင်သော။
broke = ကျိုးပဲ့သည်။ unbroke = unbroken = မကျိုးပဲ့သေးသော။
linger = စွဲမြဲကျန်ရစ်သည်၊ လေးကန်သည်၊ ဖင့်နှေးသည်။
His eyes couldn't fellow... သူ့မျက်စိကလိုက်မမှီနိုင်ခဲ့။
he did not know...သူမသိခဲ့။ he wanted to know... သူသိချင်ခဲ့။

The meaning of the poem

1.I shot an arrow into the air __
It fell to earth, I knew not where;

These lines mean that when the poet shot an arrow into the sky, it flew through the air and hit the ground but he did not know the place where it hit the ground.

2.For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

These lines mean that the arrow flew though the air so fast that the poet’s eyes could not follow the path it took.

3. I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
These lines meant hat the poet sang a song softly and he believed that it must have been heard by someone, somewhere, but he did not know by whom.

4.For, who has sight so keen and strong,
That it could follow the flight of song?

These lines mean that the poet did not know who heard his song because there is no one with eyesight to keen and song that it could see the place where the song went.

5.Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;

These lines mean that the long time afterward, when the poet had forgotten about the arrow he had shot, he found his arrow still unbroke in an oak.

6.And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

These lines mean that the poet found out that a friend had heard the song he had sung and that friend was able to sing the song from the beginning to the end.

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