"A straggle of gossamer wool shreds shorn off from the pearly mass"
What image does this mean? It is talking about clouds in the sky at dusk.
It is too poetic to understand. Is this even viable English?
"A straggle of gossamer wool shreds shorn off from the pearly mass"
What image does this mean? It is talking about clouds in the sky at dusk.
It is too poetic to understand. Is this even viable English?
It's perfectly valid English (assuming it's poetry, not normal discourse).
1: a straggle - an untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group
What kind of straggle? One composed of...
2: shreds - pieces cut or torn off, especially in narrow strips
Those shreds are further qualified (adjectivally) by gossamer and wool (you can look those up yourself).
What does the sentence say about that straggle?. That it was...
3: shorn (past participle of shear - to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument)
Shorn from what? From the...
4: pearly - like a pearl, especially in being white or lustrous
5: mass - a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size mass