Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.