"Ode to My Socks," Vocabulary from the poem

In Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to My Socks," the speaker finds beauty in everyday life.
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  1. decrepit
    worn and broken down by hard use
    my feet seemed to me
    unacceptable
    like two decrepit
    firemen
  2. remorse
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
    Like explorers
    in the jungle who hand
    over the very rare
    green deer
    to the spit
    and eat it
    with remorse
  3. twilight
    the time of day immediately following sunset
    I slipped my feet
    into them
    as though into
    two
    cases
    knitted
    with threads of
    twilight
  4. cannon
    a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
    two immense blackbirds
    two cannons
  5. temptation
    the desire to do something that you know you should avoid
    I resisted
    the sharp temptation
    to save them somewhere
  6. resist
    withstand the force of something
    I resisted
    the sharp temptation
    to save them somewhere
  7. impulse
    a sudden desire
    I resisted
    the mad impulse
    to put them
    into a golden
    cage
  8. magnificent
    characterized by grandeur
    I stretched out
    my feet
    and pulled on
    the magnificent
    socks
    and then my shoes.
  9. immense
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    my feet were
    two fish made
    of wool,
    two long sharks
    sea-blue, shot
    through
    by one golden thread,
    two immense blackbirds
  10. sacred
    made, declared, or believed to be holy
    I resisted
    the sharp temptation
    to save them somewhere
    as schoolboys
    keep
    fireflies,
    as learned men
    collect
    sacred texts
  11. honor
    show respect towards
    my feet
    were honored
    in this way
    by
    these
    heavenly
    socks.
  12. moral
    the significance of a story or event
    The moral
    of my ode is this:
    beauty is twice
    beauty
    and what is good is doubly
    good
  13. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
    The moral
    of my ode is this:
    beauty is twice
    beauty
    and what is good is doubly
    good
Created on Mon May 08 08:30:18 EDT 2017 (updated Mon May 08 08:49:20 EDT 2017)

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