The poem presents
the problems of the modern life. It depicts how modernity alienated people from
simplicity. It has snatched the simplicity from modern people. People need care
and comfort. However, they have no leisure to enjoy the leisure. It upholds the
importance of nature.
It satirizes on a modern
way of living.
It highlights the
proximity to the nature.
It stresses on
importance of leisure in one’s life.
Modernity gets
fused into the body implicitly.
Modernity keeps people
separated from nature.
People need to know
to celebrate simplicity.
Summary:
The poem
highlights the importance of being close to nature. It begins with inhalation
process. The living life is full of
care. It depicts the life being busy mostly with necessities required for the
body. They do not have enough time for their mind. They are busy as if they do
not have enough time to stand and stare. He further talks about modern time.
They even cannot stay beneath the branches as sheep or cow can do.
The poem talks
about the laps in modern society as they lack the time. People have busy
schedule. They hardly have time to go through the natural things. They have no
time to see the woods though they pass by it. They donot know about the wild
life and their action. They cannot see the stars or day light. They are slowly
detached from the nature.
People have no time
to turn or observe the beautiful girls. They can not tell how they step while
dance. They have no time to see the smile on the face of the girls. The laps
have been used metaphor for the poor mentality, poverty in mentality of the
modern man who has no any time to go through the natute.
The poem deals with
how simple things touch the human. It deals with the people should manage time
to get complete understanding of one’s soul and mind. A peron has to invest the
time in simple things. It goes in the line of proximity to nature.
The poem is rich in
its literary device. It begins with irony. The use of rhetorical question makes
poem more literary. It has alliteration. It has refrain too.
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