“Growing Old” †a Poem by Matthew Arnold Essay

What is it to grow ageing?Is it to lose the glory of the form,The lustre of the midriff?Is it for beauty to forego her wreath?Yes, plainly not for this alone.Is it to heart our expertnessNot our bloom only, just our specialisation decay?Is it to olfactory perception separately limbGrow stiffer, every function less exact,Each philia more(prenominal) weakly strung?Yes, this, and more scarcely not,Ah, tis not what in youth we dreamed twould beTis not to assume our vivificationmellowed and softened as with sunset-glow,A golden days crepusculeTis not to see the worldAs from a height, with rapt adumbrative eyes,And heart profoundly stirredAnd weep, and feel the fulness of the past,The years that are 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 present, monthTo month with run down pain.It is to suffer this,And feel but half, and feebly, what we feelDeep in our conceal heartFesters the dull remembran ce of a change,But no sense none.It is last st advance of allWhen we are frozen up within, and quite aThe phantom of ourselves,To hear the world applaud the hollow ghostWhich blest the living man.Harneet BangaWhen we are younger we often imagine how great it would be to be older. However, when we are older, we can no longer enjoy life the way we use to, due to our physical body. Therefore the numbers developing obsolete by Matthew Arnold, basically interprets, that we should enjoy the present time we are given in life rather than looking forward to a time we think well enjoy. Matthew Arnold has attractd the cured people and the meaning of the song, pay off through the poem, with the help of poetic devices. The specific idea of vision of this poem appears to be related directly to the passage on old age people. For example, Grow stiffer, every function less exact, this quote states that once youre older, the body of an old age person becomes stiffer, and they function less exact, this quotes states vision because they delimit how an old person feels and how their brain functions as well.In for each one stanza, Arnold has answered the question he posed in the first stanza which is, What is it to grow old? in each stanza that question is answered. Since the radix of this poem is about Old people, 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 such as, old, wreath, last stage, stiffer, strength decay, etc are words in the poem that symbolises growing old, basically symbolizing the meaning of the poem. Simile is when you compare two nouns, and Arnold has used this device to develop how it feels to be old, As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, the words used in this example, have no common interest with one another(prenominal), but it still demonstrates the meaning of the poem.Harneet BangaA dictionary definition of the word remote will probably has som ething to do with mature and aged 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 risky 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 irregular it doesnt attend 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. beginning rhyme wasnt common in this poem, lets say it was just now used alliteration is having the same letter in one cablegram couple of times, And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel Arnold uses this term in an alliteration way to describe how old age people feel, t hey basically feel in an super pathetically way.There are much more poetic devices used in this poem, assonance has a great pretend on the poems meaning. Assonance is a repetition of the sound of vowel end-to-end the stanza, and in the poem they have repeat 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 similar 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 describe 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 extremely well manner, and with thes e poetic devices, the meaning of the poem became clearer.