Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

and bids the tyrant circumstance

Spanish translation:

y obliga a la tirana circunstancia a dejar su corona, y volverse sirvienta

Added to glossary by Silvia Brandon-Pérez
May 23, 2007 04:21
17 yrs ago
English term

and bids the tyrant circumstance

Not for points English to Spanish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Poetry
This is a poem that talks about the power of one's will to overcome limitations and circumstances
Change log

May 23, 2007 04:26: Margaret Schroeder changed "Term asked" from "and bids de tyrant circumstance" to "and bids the tyrant circumstance"

May 25, 2007 02:08: Silvia Brandon-Pérez changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/664902">Marco Eguino's</a> old entry - "and bids the tyrant circumstance"" to ""y obliga a la tirana circunstancia a dejar su corona, y volverse sirvienta""

Discussion

Margaret Schroeder May 23, 2007:
Contexto: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wilcox01.html "Will" por Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Proposed translations

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y obliga a la tirana circunstancia a dejar su corona, y volverse sirvienta

Hablando de la voluntad, y de la circunstancia que en este contexto es las circunstancias, por ejemplo, del nacimiento. La poeta dice que la voluntad le quita la corona a la circunstancia tirana, y la vuelve en vez de tirana en sirvienta.

WILL.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler)

1 You will be what you will to be;
2 Let failure find its false content
3 In that poor word "environment,"
4 But spirit scorns it, and is free.

5 It masters time, it conquers space,
6 It cowes that boastful trickster Chance,
7 And bids the tyrant Circumstance
8 Uncrown and fill a servant's place.
Peer comment(s):

agree Refugio : Good, except I might say "ordena" a la tirana circunstancia
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