In order to understand and remember what you’re reading it can be helpful to:
C. Create mental pictures as you read.
<em>The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, And the place death, considering who thou art, If </em><em>any</em><em> of my kinsmen find thee here.</em>
<em>Any</em> is the indefinite pronoun because it means something like "it does not matter who of my kinsmen as long as the person is one of my kinsmen" although Present Day English demands agreement as third person singular (<em>if any of you agree</em><em>s</em>) in the passage the agreement is third person plural because from the point of view of meaning [<em>any of my kinsmen</em>] can be replaced as <em>they</em> and the verb <em>find</em> agrees with this plural idea.
Present Day British English has this kind of agreement called collective noun which grammatically can function like the pronoun <em>they</em>, for example as in <em>the committee </em><em>have</em><em> started the meeting</em>). The word <em>police</em> is another example of collective noun by taking third person plural agreement as in the sentence <em>The police </em><em>have </em><em>arrived</em>.
I do like the quote, " Be the change you want to see in the world" -Mahatma Gandhi. This quote makes me feel like he is giving me a task and I have to do it, I must accomplish it. If I do not accomplish it something will go wrong. This quote makes me feel like I should be the person that makes a change. I should make the world a better place, even if no one wants to change the world I should be the one to do it. This quote makes me feel like he is calling me to help him change the world because he can't do it by himself. The smallest change can make the biggest difference.
It gives the idea that love can be transformed and it can get hard but the concept is forever. The shape changes and color changes but it is still a rose.
