Timeline for Why is this sentence "If I'm not won ere set of sun" passive form?
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 5:13 | vote | accept | Yuuichi Tam | ||
| Jun 11, 2017 at 5:13 | comment | added | Yuuichi Tam | Thank you for your helpful comments. I got it. I should have thought that "The Princess is the prize and it means "If the prize, which is I, am not won". | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 21:45 | history | edited | Yuuichi Tam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2017 at 21:13 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | That's right: by kissing the loathsome creature three times Childe Wynde dispels the enchantment and 'wins'--gets back--his lost sister. In other version he wins a wife. The woman who is won, the passive subject, is the speaker. | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:50 | comment | added | Yuuichi Tam | But the following sentences are "Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but no change came over it. Then Childe Wynd kissed it once more; but yet no change came over it. For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and a roar the Laidly Worm reared back and before Childe Wynd stood his sister Margaret. " | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:43 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | No, it's not about winning but about winning the lady herself, the speaker: the kisses are the price of winning her. This verse makes more sense in other versions where the champion is a king's son, not the lady's brother: he wins her as his wife. | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:35 | comment | added | Yuuichi Tam | I think it means "If I don't win kisses" and if it becomes passive form, it would be "If kisses aren't won". So I am confused with "If I'm not won ". | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:28 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Because it makes the meter work and provides internal rhyme ... what more reason do you need? Why shouldn't it be in the passive? | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:23 | history | asked | Yuuichi Tam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |