“Growing Old” †a Poem by Matthew Arnold Essay

What is it to fester nonagenarian?Is it to meet the credit of the form,The lustre of the eye?Is it for beauty to forego her wreath?Yes, entirely non for this alone.Is it to feel our strength non our bloom only, but our strength decomposition?Is it to feel each limbGrow stiffer, every scarper less(prenominal) exact,Each nerve more weakly strung?Yes, this, and more but not,Ah, tis not what in y out(p)h we dreamed twould beTis not to stomach our lifeMellowed and softened as with sunset-glow,A golden sidereal days dec bloodlineTis not to see the worldAs from a height, with rapt sibylline eyes,And heart profoundly stirredAnd weep, and feel the fulness of the past,The long time that ar no moreIt is to spend long daysAnd not once feel that we were ever young.It is to add, immuredIn the hot prison of the comprise, monthTo month with weary pain.It is to suffer this,And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel drop dead in our hidden heartFesters the dull remembrance of a change, scarce no emotion none.It is last stage of allWhen we be stock-still up within, and quiteThe phantom of ourselves,To hear the world applaud the golf hole ghostWhich blamed the living man.Harneet BangaWhen we are younger we often recall how great it would be to be older. However, when we are older, we can no seven-day enjoy life the way we employ to, due to our physical body. accordingly the rime Growing Old by Matthew Arnold, basically interprets, that we should enjoy the present time we are given in life rather than flavor forward to a time we think well enjoy. Matthew Arnold has described the elderly the great unwashed and the meaning of the verse, right through the verse, with the help of poetic devices. The specific root word of imagery of this verse form appears to be related directly to the passage on old age mint. For example, Grow stiffer, every function less exact, this refer states that once youre older, the body of an old age person be write outs stiffer, and they function less exact, this quotes states imagery because they describe how an old person feels and how their brain functions as well.In each stanza, Arnold has answered the question he posed in the number 1 stanza which is, What is it to grow old? in each stanza that question is answered. Since the theme of this poem is about Old wad, there are many symbols in this poem that describe the theme of the poem, and we could use this poetic device which is symbolism. The words much(prenominal) as, old, wreath, last stage, stiffer, strength decay, etc are words in the poem that symbolises maturement old, basically symbolising the meaning of the poem. Simile is when you compare two nouns, and Arnold has utilise this device to explain how it feels to be old, As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, the words used in this example, have no common beguile with one another, but it still demonstrates the meaning of the poem.Harneet BangaA dictionary translation of the word elder ly will in all likelihood has something to do with mature and senior(a) people, but the connation to describe the word elderly in the poem are, Is it to lose the glory of the form, or The lustre of the eye this is the connation version of describing the meaning of the poem, which are old people. This fantastic poem is missing one thing which would probably make this poem sound much better, which is the rhyming of the poem, it always lets people get into the poem, but unfortunately this wasnt used in the poem. Since this poem doesnt have a rhyme scheme, the meter of this poem is sec it doesnt follow the da Dum da Dum da Dum da Dum style, it has come up with another original and unique style for the readers to figure out the meaning of the poem. Alliteration wasnt common in this poem, lets guess it was hardly used alliteration is having the same letter in one line couple of times, And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel Arnold uses this line in an alliteration way to describe how old age people feel, they basically feel in an extremely pathetically way.There are much more poetic devices used in this poem, assonance has a great impact on the poems meaning. Assonance is a repetition of the sound of vowel throughout the stanza, and in the poem they have repeated a vowel throughout a line in a stanza. For example, Not our bloom only, but our strength decay? the vowel O is used throughout this line of the poem, creating assonance and a meaning to the poem. The word old is being repeated constantly all through the poem, Arnold doesnt say old in every stanza, but he does use identical words to describe old, and answers the question which he asked in the beginning of the poem, which is What is it to grow old? Matthew Arnold has described the meaning of the poem through all these poetic devices, for example the imagery is used in the poem to give us an image of an elderly person and how they feel. All these poetic devices have contributed to the poem in an extre mely well manner, and with these poetic devices, the meaning of the poem became clearer.