Edwin Arlington Robinson
Summary
This poem presents the sense of time and love; which are equally powerful and eternal. Time is the greatest agent to bring changes, can kill friends but it cannot kill love it is absolutely true. We have never seen death has plucked
love (b). This is irony to the power of time. Friends are important to life, even after their death. Life becomes meaningful if it has spent with friends with fun, sharing and caring.
Human beings are very weak particles for time because time engulfs ( lgN5) all living things. In the death of human being, and the death looks like withered ferns (;’s]sf] pGo”) but time becomes a jester / joker and starts celebration on our demise. Time and death are eternal in the physical world. When moaning ( cnfk ljnfk) starts with tears and sighing (v’Oo u/]/), time rejects its role in the disaster. We are losing friends and we have the feelings sorrow. We see we are missing our friends every moment everywhere.
We are like the dried plant lying near the road and the death never listens our pray (a). We express grief to the demise of loved ones but we must accept the natural phenomena.
When we are growing in the young age, we defy ( c:jLsf/ ug'{) death and think that we are more powerful than death. We dream and long endlessly but we go before we are able to achieve our aims. We are foolish to desire the impossibilities (c). Death is almighty and it is always eying us. We neither can challenge it, not escape out of it. We must accept natural truth. All ought to feel emotional pain in life. After reading this poem we can feel sad, but we learn it is useless to be sad (d).
