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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | English term or phrase: that went not astray | | Elizabeth Barrett had the same number of brothers and sisters that Shakespeare had; and we know no more of the seven Barretts who were swallowed by oblivion than we do of the seven Shakespeares that went not astray |
| | | English translation:reference to the return of the lost sheep | Explanation:
In the biblical parable (Mathew 18: 12-13) of the lost sheep, the shepherd "rejoiceth more of that sheep (that had) gone astray ... than of the ninety and nine that went not astray."
Poets, as Robert Frost reminded us, take the unusual path, "road less traveled." They don't go with the crowd. They go off on their own.
So that's the metaphorical history being drawn on, I believe, to say that those "that went not astray," and led ordinary lives are those that are forgotten. It is the poets, who act differently who are remembered. |
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