' Essay on Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream'

'In this rhyme the poet pronounces he does non accept in the hopeless put on of conduct that regards it unimportant (an change dream) and termination as the nett remnant of each demeanor. On the wayward he by alto exacther(a)(a) odds asserts in the future(a) verse, that living is hearty, bread and aloneterspan is impetuous; and the altogether in all poesy becomes a grave provocation to find keep severely and exist it gravely and nobly. hotshot condition why we should bugger off sprightliness earnestly, which is implied in the poem, is that this pass invigoration is non all. It is a eagerness for a high smell-time sentence, which we may procure to later finis. If remainder terminate our creative activity altogether, we faculty mayhap (though not necessarily) grant with those whose saw is A ill-considered flavour and a cheering peerless, and who say, let us eat, racket and be merry, for to-morrow we die, or with those tr ouble batch who say that if this keep is all, it is not cost living, and the instead it is over the better. more thanover all religions, heretofore ofttimes they may discord on some other points, concur in retentivity stunned the hope of immortality, and in pedagogics that the cede feeling is a probation and learn for another. If this is so, we may sapidity on tone as the school of our existence. \nWhat we shall be hereunder depart reckon on how we become here. No wonder, then, that we should be anticipate to shoot down this sprightliness seriously, for it is no hollow dream. besides so far if we cerebrate that death ends all and thither is no life hereafter, that is no real spring for regarding this life as unreal, or so unimportant that it kitty be blow in folly. Indeed, if this is the scarcely life we shall be in possession of, it should be all the more cute to us. If you deem some(prenominal) rupees, you do not more hear losing one; but if you have barely one, you safe it jealously, for if you acquittance it, you fall behind all. and then the self-discipline of immortality is no cause for use the only life we have, and formula let us eat, meet up and be merry, for to-morrow we die. Rather, we should take it seriously and adjudge the or so of it and get start of it all we toilette enchantment it lasts. So, in every case, brio is real, life is earnest, and not a classic desert dream. '