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16:15 Apr 16, 2011
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / مقال
English term or phrase: autumn rake
so pinched and slow,
Failed in its function as the autumn rake;
amani l
Syria
Local time: 22:57


Summary of answers provided
5مثل مكنسة ورق الخريف (من حيث جفافها) - شوكة التقاط الأوراق الذابلة
Nasser Afify
4جراف أوراق الشجر
Walaa Adel
4مجرفة/جرافة الخريف
Nadia Ayoub
4مجرفة أوراق الشجر المتساقطة في الخريف
TargamaT


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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
مجرفة أوراق الشجر المتساقطة في الخريف


Explanation:
ياليت مقطع السياق يكون أطول

TargamaT
Syria
Local time: 22:57
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
مجرفة/جرافة الخريف


Explanation:
المجرفة التي تستخدم في جمع أوراق الشجر التي تسقط في الخريف

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Note added at 23 mins (2011-04-16 16:38:48 GMT)
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عجزت عن أن تكون مجرفة الخريف


Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 21:57
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PRO pts in category: 438
Notes to answerer
Asker: شكرا على المساعدة ولكن هل نقول أن سويقات القطن كانت لا تقوى على الوقوف كمجرفة اوراق الخريف أو.. هذا كان سؤالي شكرا مرة أخرى

Asker: اه شكرا جزيلاً

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جراف أوراق الشجر


Explanation:
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Walaa Adel
Local time: 21:57
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مثل مكنسة ورق الخريف (من حيث جفافها) - شوكة التقاط الأوراق الذابلة


Explanation:
On "November Cotton Flower"


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Nellie McKay

Images of scarcity, drought, and death in the natural world of the poem parallel the oppression of race, sex, class, and economics that comprise the reality of Karintha:

And cotton, scarce as any southern snow,
Was vanishing; the branch, so pinched and slow,
Failed in its function as the autumn rake;
Drouth fighting soil had caused the soil to take
All water from the streams; dead birds were found
In wells a hundred feet below the ground--

It is a dismal landscape into which the flower blooms. The old people are startled by this omen of false spring that they know can only be a sign of greater misfortune for them all. In their superstition, they perceive in it the human dimensions of "Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear, / Beauty so sudden for that time of Year."

From Jean Toomer: Artist—A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936. Copyright © 1984 by The University of North Carolina Press.



Nasser Afify
Egypt
Local time: 21:57
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