Life's Hells example essay topic
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This poem seemingly has different interpretations according to its appeal to the reader. It strikes the reader not with logic or understanding but with emotion that we could relate to. Frustration. Sadness. Grief. Sorrow. All these add up to what we feel when we lose someone. Either by death or by love, these emotions are a common ground that produces pain in a human being. When we look more closely in the first line, we can see that 'closed' and 'close' mean different things.
The 'closed's he was referring to was her past experiences, her loss, her pain and the second 'close' was about herself. That she was literally closing her life to everything. We don't know what caused that pain. Maybe she loved someone and was rejected. Maybe she lost her husband, her child, or herself. No one knows, but one thing is certain.
That experience is so sharp and so intense that she begins to question life's end. What happens after death? Is there true immortality? Then she compares all her what if's to the two pains in her life (as these that twice befell).
And that is when she became hopeless to everything, loosing focus and understanding. The last two lines of her poem would be quite hard to understand. That's why we have to phase out, heaven and hell first. Parting is all we know. Parting is all we need. What do we know, and what do we need?
Of course we need to part basically because it's right. It needs to be for the right reasons. But in return, it's like hell, full of suffering and hurt. And next, what do we know about parting? Simple. Even though parting is painful, we have this inkling to fight and live.
We know that we have to keep our head up because there is a reason. That life isn't always that bad, we need to look beyond life's hells and begin to accept its heavens. That our beautiful memories, the goodness of life, the persons we love that are still here and the God that makes this bumpy life a joy ride are the main reasons why we still need to wake up every morning of our life.
