Can someone please Interpret this poem?

Question

i ask you senior citizens because you have much more wisdom and insight than kids my age (17) so im curious with what you think! thank you

" What better way to perpetuate the memories of Golden Days. What finer way to give due prominence to Youth and it's Jolities. What more asthetic manor to portray the panorama of Love, than by making a compilation of photographs which will ever serve as a sequence of Life. Even is with a book we are forever in the opening pages of the Introduction, and the Closing page. The End."
- male author unknown (written sometime in 1930's or 40's)

Answer 1

Burnsey, this poem is the writer's reflection to others his own understanding of life. What he, at that time, found out about this "illusion" we call life. You see, life is those memories of things which you have experienced in that Milli-second called the present. So many are fooled into thinking that the present is any longer than the fleeting micro-instant which is shorter than it takes to think "A", let alone to actually experience anything.



The writer points this out especially with his last two lines for how else can one be in the future and the past at the same time. Which is to say that we are eternally either in the future or the past. The future is always waning into the past.





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Answer 2

The last line should be, even AS with a book we are forever in the opening pages of the introduction and the closing page. The end.

eg.Born 1900- died 1980 without pictures our life is only a dash on a monument.

Answer 3

Bumsey - Don't sell yourself short - you are wise to seek out others opinion on a matter such as this. You have many good answers.

Pictures/photos truly are worth a thousand words. If portrayed in the proper order they can tell the story of ones life. It's pictures of - the baby - the toddler - the young school age child - their achievements - their wedding - their children - fun activities - their way of life etc.



To me it's like a slide show and a history of their life and it becomes priceless with out a word being said.



Before photography it would have meant. " A Sketch is worth a thousand words" or "A good sketch is better than a log speech"

Very good question.

DeeJay.

Answer 4

It sounds like the author could be saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words". For so much can

be gleaned by an expression in a photo, or a background, or a way of dressing to indicate a special

occasion. I have lost all of my albums in one felt swoop of devastation. So I know only too well what

it is, to lose all of the pictures of middle age back to ones' youth. Some I do recall, are mere shadows in my mind after all these years. I rarely looked them over, but if I'd wanted to, they would

have been there. Now there is no option. And they are lost to anyone interested, forever.

Answer 5

The first 2 traces of Walt Whitman's poem "Miracles" says all of it: "Why, Who Makes Much of a Miracle?" "As to me, I realize not anything of else however miracles,". One does now not want a measure in English literature to experience or have an understanding of this poem, and in studying extra, it's like ingesting a category of first-class wine, it simply will get bigger and bigger, and the extra you learn, the extra immersed you grow to be. For Walt Whitman, jogging down the streets in Manhattan is a miracle. How many people who're older can don't forget in early fall, correct whilst the night begins to fall, jogging residence from institution or physical activities train, whilst the whole thing is quiet, and autos are making final minute journeys residence, and the sky is popping red earlier than the darkness starts to set in, or that odor within the air of anticipation of matters to appear ahead to, dinner on the desk with one's household, or a quiet dialog with one's mom, or an occasion in which one will see a nice pal? Or how many people can don't forget an early summer time morning, sitting within the grass, looking bees, feeling the solar on our faces, looking our pals grasp their laundry, witnessing the rhythm of lifestyles that does not get an interview at the information or a piece of writing within the newspaper? Indeed, it could get a image within the artwork gallery, however so much men and women could go it through. We say, "The nice matters in Life are unfastened", and certainly, the message of this poem isn't just that truly miracles don't seem to be best correct in entrance people, and some thing we relatively are thankful for if we could best give up for a minute to discover it, but in addition, that this poem demands no interpretation to have an understanding of it or consider it; it's there for all people to enjoy and have an understanding of.

Answer 6

It is not a poem - just prose.

Live well - do things -

get away from the PC (in the 30s, 40s, 50, 60s, 70s - no PCs to steal your time & life then)

Remember your times of joy --- record them on photos, in words, to trigger your memories when you get much older.

It is worth reviewing how you got to where you are & who you spend your life with & where things went well.

School pictures, family pics, trips & outings, friends & fun, all the things & memories that are pieces of your Life.... As we get older, it is wonderful thing to have triggers for memorable stories to share with Ones who might be interested or just to review on your own...

Answer 7

All of life's memories are but snapshots in the time of youth.

Brought to mind these snapshots reveal the passage of this life.

Even as we experience another memorable moment today it passes into the past at once and these memory making times move us toward the closing page of our life.





I think it is about life and the death that will come to all. The memories are bitter sweet. I don't think it is about an album of photos.

Answer 8

According to this author, there's no more fitting or appropriate way to preserve the memories of your life and love than to keep a photo album. As long as those photos exist, these events and you will always be a part of life.

Answer 9

What part of you having problems with? The big words or are you really serious? I am going to assume you are serious since you did say thank you.

What better way to remember our youth! There's no better way to think of youth and the fun time we had. What better way to portray our loves, our growing years, our lost relatives by putting together a scrap book. As long as this book remains and there is someone to look at it, people will remember and/or wonder.

Answer 10

It seems to me that it's written about a photo album, and how it's a perfect way of showing how someone lives. That's my interpretation, of course.



(And, you don't need to be older to understand it. You just need to know what the words mean...I'm only 14).

Answer 11

Photos are a great way of remembering what life was like.

Unfortunately I destroyed some because they showed me in `Old fashioned clothes', much to my regret as 'Old fashioned' or not, they were part of my history and never to be seen again.

Answer 12

Some rich guy getting all mushy over a new technology.

Answer 13

Definition of our life

Answer 14

why do most people come here for help with homework, also, it is mean going to older people, i know what you mean when you said that