Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0215 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Still" Means Continually
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The idea
Sonnet five ends "But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet". Still means always or continually. The distilled flower goes on living sweetly, and the modern sense of nevertheless would empty the couplet of its claim.
In practice
Still means always, here.
Where people slip
This is the sense most often missed.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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