The second voice- the voice of mature experience takes over and emphasizes on the inevitability of death and burial ( “A mouthful of earth to remedy all”). He continues to wonder what choice he would make when he’s sixty years old. The image of a “hazel lost a leaf of gold” symbolizes the passage of time, thereby enhancing ‘time’ as a prevalent theme throughout the poem. Yet, “another voice” reminds the speaker, and the voice of youth, that when he was young he was full of gloomy pessimism and despair and had then wished that he “had never been born”. No sooner does the speaker wonder which way he should go, when the “voice” of his youth reminds him that when he was young he wouldn’t the “doubted” his instinct but instead would have made a quick decision. This, of course, is symbolically one of the most important questions each person faces in his or her life. The narrator comes to the signpost with arrows giving directions to different destinations and asks himself where he wants to go. The narrator is walking along a deserted stretch of seacoast, observing the “rough, long grasses” that “keep white with frost” on the winter day. The poem opens by describing a wintry seascape, this helping to establish already the idea of the passage of time as we normally associate seascapes with spring or summer. This poem explores a number of related themes including those of life and death, youth and age, decision and indecision, the change in a person’s perspective over time, about the choices we make and, in the end, how one should appreciate life. A cold monochrome pervades the first few lines and the characteristic despair kicks in at the end of the first verse: “At twenty you wished you had never been born”. Frost hinted that this poem was a sly dig at Thomas, who was famously indecisive when it came to making choices.įrost’s poem was considered as a life affirming, positive poem. This poem brings to mind the more famous one by Robert Frost, “The road not taken” about journeys and choices. Few readers recognised that his poetry was as much about himself as it was about nature. For many years he was read, if he was read at all, for his finely detailed descriptions of the English countryside. It was not until he met the American poet, Robert Frost, that Thomas found the confidence to write. This unceasing work could not have helped the serious bouts of depression from which he frequently suffered. Financial pressures gave him little choice but to compile anthologies, prepare hundreds of book reviews and write over thirty books on literary and topographical subjects. There was no ATT or T-Mobile connectivity from about an hour north of Fort Nelson until about 5 minutes from Watson Lake.Edward Thomas was born in London. But both ATT & T-Mobile had great connectivity in the town. So, anyone staying here, don't count on the WiFi working. I connected just fine to the antenna but neither of the login and passwords worked, said access denied. They give you two slips of receipt paper for the ssid password and for the captaportal. Nor did we look at the bathrooms or laundry. I may hook up to it in the morning to see if it even works. Never experienced anything like that before. The reason I didn't give it more was the internet. Sites as mentioned are very narrow, two quad slide class A's will only have about 18" between the extended slides. The campground is easy to get in and out.
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