Ratus Ratus
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alright uncle...First you didn't understand the basic metaphor within the poetry and later when someone finally helped you with it,you came back making ridiculous conjectures about my age?
truly rubbish!!!
I read this poem ...I loved the way Gibran talks metaphorically about the rise, subsequent fall and circle of life...I thought to share it with the forum members and You think I'm not old enough?
BTW who told you my age?
if someone did ...how do you know it's true? YOU need to grow up!
Go further into the meter it has depth..
First life runs in the circular pattern you make reference to, its rises and falls so to speak. This movement is not as one might suggest but operates in a random manner. So to represent life it can bee seen as fickle. That is changes at a whim.
But you the observer of this and in essence have a limited control of your life and your life circle. The fickle nature may be controlled.
The poem its words and meaning are valuable and does represent life in a generalised manner.
All I did was take that metaphor further. I fail to see why I am not entitled to do with any poetry as I have not detracted for its original essence.
I am not your uncle and as for age so what, I am at the end of mine.
So have respect to someone who has seen much of life, its ups and down, its life giving and its life taking, it good side and its bad.
Dont tell me to grow up till you pass my age.