Before you die, will your whole life flash before your eyes? When you are near the end of your life, will you think about the past and have nostalgic feelings for your old days?
In some movies and books, the elderly are shown as people who are happy because they have lived a successful lifestyle and have done everything they have wanted. Is that actually true or is it lie? Are the elderly actually happy knowing that their lives are about to end and are all these movies and books all lies and deceit. Being young is great, but aging is the process of life so should one always accept it. People think that being immortal is amazing, but is it? In the movie Bicentennial Man, a robot that soon turns into a human with feelings wants to age and die because he has lived too long and wants to feel the process of aging and death. But in many movies such as Highlander, people kill each other and cause chaos just so they can live forever. Is it that people who live successful lives are not afraid of death and people who fear death because they have not accomplish what they wanted to do in life?
In William Shakespeare’s “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”, the poem can be interpreted about how one reaches old age and he or she will miss youth and how one should take advantage or his or her youth. Shakespeare skillfully used many metaphors throughout the poem and doing it in a way by using images for a touching and affecting feeling. The images in “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” plays a significant part in the poem because one must compare images and think about what each images symbolize.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment