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FALSE PAST PARTICIPLES 113
I, 62, ... wind-blown hair . . .
blown through (or about) by the wind];
or which may show an omission of the usual prefix, as in:
1, 256, . . . these gold flower-fumed eves . . .
where fumed has taken the place of the more common
perfumed.
A considerable number of formations approach the
next class, as it is difficult to decide whether a
metaphorical use of the verb occurs or not, especially because verbs
in this kind of compound have a tendency to lose their
pregnancy. Language, moreover, is a gallery of faded
metaphors; and to a foreigner it is a delicate task to put down
an image to the account of the author or the language
quite categorically. The following cases, for instance, strike
me as doubtful.
II, 181, Thou art not dead as these are dead who live
Full of blind years, a sorrow-shaken kind . . .
III, 63, Not for men’s reverence hadst thou need to wear
The holy flower of grey time-hallowed hair . . .
204, . . . the storm-hewn straits
That sunder the Shetlands and Orkneys . . .
255, Above the roar of granite-baffled brine . . .
In the same way formations like sun-forgotten (II, 14),
love-wounded (II, 109), time-forgotten (IV, 10), star-clothed
(IV, 23), cloud-enshrouded (V, 228). As we shall see in the
next subdivision, verbs like these, and even more concrete
verbs, have a marked tendency to lose their individuality
and to become cliches.
Another transition group includes cases where an
original sense may be supposed to exist by assuming an
allusion to classical literature, or other literatures.
IV, 191, ... the battle-darkened air . . .
[Cf. the famous saying from the battle of Thermopylae].
Ill, 337, [we] Upwondering search the music-moulded skies . . .
’the harmony of the spheres’].
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