Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

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  1. Oriana

    Oriana New IL'ite

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    ANSWER TO #WINTER NIGHT, ROSE, MOUSE, NEW YEAR'S EVE# PICTURE PUZZLE


    Poet:ROBERT BURNS


    Poems:


    A Winter Night: When biting Boreas, fell and doure
    A Red, Red Rose: O my Luve's like a red, red rose
    To A Mouse: Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what ...
    Auld Lang Syne: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, (Sung on New Year's Eve)




    Clue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_(Ellie_Goulding_song)


    Ellie Goulding "Burn" song lyrics

    We, we don't have to worry 'bout nothing
    'Cause we got the fire, and we're burning one hell of a something
    They, they gonna see us from outer space, outer space
    Light it up, like we're the stars of the human race, human race


    When the light started out they don’t know what they heard
    Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world
    We'll be raising our hands, shining up to the sky
    'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire
    Yeah we got the fire, fire, fire


    And we gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
    We gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
    Gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
    We gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
     
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  2. surekhap

    surekhap Platinum IL'ite

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    :drowning:bonk:bangcomp: totally wrong guess.

    oriana where are you? oriana, oriana, oriana.................

    no this could not be the lady i am passionate about . she is so lively, chuckling, pulling others legs, funny, cute lady on the tree top.

    not even a single comment on the wrong answer and just the correct answer?

    how? why? what? all the question marks.

    even if i don't understand you I like to see you in that way . come back oriana.
     
  3. jskls

    jskls IL Hall of Fame

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    I was chasing Robert Frost as I complicated the mouse to Gusteau, mistook EG's love me like you do.... And so on. One Google search poet who wrote about mouse brings Burns.... Had a chance to read on Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening .... So learnt something ...
     
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  4. Oriana

    Oriana New IL'ite

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    I'll return tree atop in few days. Busy for the next few days hence the terse response this morning.


    Can I frame and gild your post and hang on my FB wall or even better distribute PR pamphlets to everyone with your testimony. No one has missed me in 12 hours so much in my entire life.


    See ya soon ...:)
     
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  5. justanothergirl

    justanothergirl IL Hall of Fame

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    I was chasing T.S.Elliots Preludes
    :bonk

    The winter evening settles down
    With smell of steaks in passageways.
    Six o’clock.
    The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
    And now a gusty shower wraps
    The grimy scraps
    Of withered leaves about your feet
    And newspapers from vacant lots;
    The showers beat
    On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
    And at the corner of the street
    A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

    And then the lighting of the lamps.

    II
    The morning comes to consciousness
    Of faint stale smells of beer
    From the sawdust-trampled street
    With all its muddy feet that press
    To early coffee-stands.
    With the other masquerades
    That time resumes,
    One thinks of all the hands
    That are raising dingy shades
    In a thousand furnished rooms.

    III
    You tossed a blanket from the bed,
    You lay upon your back, and waited;
    You dozed, and watched the night revealing
    The thousand sordid images
    Of which your soul was constituted;
    They flickered against the ceiling.
    And when all the world came back
    And the light crept up between the shutters
    And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,
    You had such a vision of the street
    As the street hardly understands;
    Sitting along the bed’s edge, where
    You curled the papers from your hair,
    Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
    In the palms of both soiled hands.

    IV
    His soul stretched tight across the skies
    That fade behind a city block,
    Or trampled by insistent feet
    At four and five and six o’clock;
    And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
    And evening newspapers, and eyes
    Assured of certain certainties,
    The conscience of a blackened street
    Impatient to assume the world.

    I am moved by fancies that are curled
    Around these images, and cling:
    The notion of some infinitely gentle
    Infinitely suffering thing.

    Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
    The worlds revolve like ancient women
    Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

    Dont you worry girlie...the rookie neurites will be ready for you when u get back!!


     
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  6. Gauri03

    Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    My answer: The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare

    [TABLE]
    [TR]
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    [TD]
    From “As You Like It,” Act [SIZE=-1]II.[/SIZE] Sc. 7.​

    A[SIZE=-1]LL[/SIZE] the world ’s a stage,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]And all the men and women merely players:[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]They have their exits and their entrances;[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]And one man in his time plays many parts,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]His Acts being seven ages. At first the Infant,[/TD]
    [TD][SIZE=-2] 5[/SIZE][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Then the whining School-boy, with his satchel[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]And shining morning face, creeping like snail[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad[/TD]
    [TD][SIZE=-2] 10[/SIZE][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a Soldier,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard;[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Seeking the bubble reputation[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the Justice,[/TD]
    [TD][SIZE=-2] 15[/SIZE][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]In fair round belly with good capon lined,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Full of wise saws and modern instances,—[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon,[/TD]
    [TD][SIZE=-2] 20[/SIZE][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]Turning again toward childish treble, pipes[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
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    [TD]And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,[/TD]
    [TD][SIZE=-2] 25[/SIZE][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]That ends this strange eventful history,[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,—[/TD]
    [TD][/TD]
    [/TR]
    [TR]
    [TD]Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
    [/TD]
    [/TR]
    [/TABLE]

    Explanation follows...
     
  7. Oriana

    Oriana New IL'ite

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    Did someone declare here that I am slightly "obsessive"?


    If rookies & veterans are confounded with my puzzles it is not the measure of comprehension of solvers but the ambiguity of the maker. I'll come up with another interesting and cannot-go-wrong puzzle that everyone will solve in the most enjoyable manner.


    (hold off on your brain fry puzzle till then Gauri)
    Give me few hours.
     
  8. Oriana

    Oriana New IL'ite

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    Looks like "freaky friday" role reversal in real life.
    I became more like you ALL (simple and direct) and you all become more like ME (twisted and indirect)
     
  9. Gauri03

    Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    Now now before you start complaining that technically it's a monologue and not a poem...

    Even though it is a monologue from a very famous work of prose, it has since found recognition as a standalone piece of poetry. It is included in everything from middle school poetry books to well known anthologies. Besides this is Aria, urf, Oriana and you are the queen of the once removed clue so naturally I thought it a perfectly acceptable answer.

    The highlighted portions of the poem,

    Calendar -- the passing of the ages
    lean and slippered pantaloons -- can't go wrong there can ya?
    Castle by the sea -- I couldn't place this one at all so I reverse engineered it as a reference to Macbeth, pointing to the author. Hence the meta clue.

    I wasn't happy with the castle/sea reasoning initially but then when you emphasized the surroundings, I assumed you meant sea.

    Sea --> seven seas --> seven ages

    Thus went my reasoning. Hence the saat samundar song. :)

    Not bad haan? The clues fit! Now should I give ya the same third degree you gave @sokanasanah? :evil:
     
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  10. Oriana

    Oriana New IL'ite

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    Humph! I just framed a puzzle, a masterfully crafted puzzle that no one can go astray and everyone will answer but you just had to damper my enthusiasm.

    Will return later. I don't want to be anywhere around when your invocation is attended and the Lord rises.

    See ya ...
     

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