fletch, v.
[Perh. a corruption (due to association with FLETCHER) of FLEDGE v. 4;
though the latter has not been found earlier than 1796.]
trans. To fit (an arrow) with a feather; to feather. lit. and fig.
1635-56 COWLEY Davideis II. 91 Thy Darts are..Soft as the Feathers that
they're fletch'd withal. 1760 WARBURTON Doctr. Grace II. x, He dips his
curses in the gall of irony; and..fletches them with a prophane classical
Parody. 1845 J. SAUNDERS Pict. Eng. Life, Chaucer 89 Arrows..fletched with
the feathers of the goose. 1876 BANCROFT Hist. U.S. V. xliii. 25 They
fletched their complaint by adding: ‘America loved his brother’.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Patrick Mc Manus
> Sent: 14 March 2006 12:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: help--translation query
>
> Hey Peter I see what you mean -puffed sounds bit puffy -how
> about 'steeled against the cold' determination -more of a
> hard defying sound Cheers from patrick Minus a tooth and
> finger tip for his birthday!!
> Ps not read all emails someone may have a better suggestion
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Peter Cudmore
> Sent: 14 March 2006 05:23
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: help--translation query
>
> I like hinchada. Somehow sounds more important than fluffing.
> Not much help to a translator, tho there must be a route back
> to Latin, or to Greek, and then forwards to English.
>
> P
>
> > > >> My problem was that all of the possibilities I could think of
> > > >> sounded so silly, and there's no silliness to the image in the
> > > >> poem. And I wanted something brief, as in the spanish
> the entire
> > > >> parenthetical expression is the word hinchada. Alas.
> > > >>
> > > >> Here it is. It's by José Kozer.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> THE TREE OF LIFE
> > > >>
> > > >> The Greater Antilles began to appear at the sound of a
> > pigeon¹s flight.
> > > >>
> > > >> The flight fashioned the contours of an island of the Greater
> > > >> Antilles; the island
> > > >> now of hurricanes, guásima trees, the mother tongue
> > > >> finally done with naming those things at their hearts
> > > >> unsoundable.
> > > >>
> > > >> How else could one explain that the act of sealing the
> > window would
> > > >> transpose
> > > >> from semi-darkness to a trackless light the
> > snow covering
> > > >> the length and width of the nation, let the
> raven be left
> > > >> alone in the midst of the squall, the light
> > renders violet
> > > >> (within it) the fruit at the foot of the raven
> > (its feathers
> > > >> puffed out against the cold), hunger only hunger could
> > > >> convince it to pick the skin from some animal,
> tossing it
> > > >> side to side across its shadow.
> > > >
>
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