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Analysis and comments on My life has been the poem by Henry David Thoreau

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Comment 16 of 26, added on October 22nd, 2005 at 3:34 PM.

this poem is short and sweet but with real deep meanings..its all about the
life of evey individual which gives u a chance just to know ur life
better..poem is deeply touching heart with simple words......

ashka from United States
Comment 15 of 26, added on September 28th, 2005 at 6:39 PM.

When you solve a puzzle, puzzle is no longer offer a meaning, whereas, poem
and puzzle cannot survive together; taste of poem will be bleeding.
Therefore, i say, if I have to solve a puzzle in a poem, I would rather buy
a puzzle book.



sal from United States
Comment 14 of 26, added on August 18th, 2005 at 9:57 AM.

Beautiful. I will reluctantly write that many times I try to analyze
poetry, stories, etc., and really want to be a genius at interpretation,
but unfortunately I am not. I go with my first gut reaction to what I
read, and this one gave me chills.

margaret from United States
Comment 13 of 26, added on July 27th, 2005 at 1:19 PM.

Very deep. I think the poet is saying that his life has been exactly what
he would have chosen it to be. It's exactly the way he would have written
it had he been able to write his own destiny.

Elizabeth from Canada
Comment 12 of 26, added on July 2nd, 2005 at 11:39 AM.

nice poem give warmth to heart

anjum faraz from India
Comment 11 of 26, added on June 24th, 2005 at 7:55 AM.

Take the Life that you have and give it your best...
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest...
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet...
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall...
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all...
Take the love that you're given and return it with care...
Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see...
Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free...
The idea here is simply to even the score...
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War

athotshimrah from India
Comment 10 of 26, added on April 7th, 2005 at 3:18 PM.

love it so much

trevor S from United States
Comment 9 of 26, added on April 5th, 2005 at 7:27 PM.

what ever moron said this poem has deep meaning needs to read edger allen
poes (raven

justin from United States
Comment 8 of 26, added on April 5th, 2005 at 12:46 AM.

Is this poem a chilling admission of having failed to live? Or is it a wry
conceit on writer's detachment from experiential truth, and a self-parody?

He seems to be saying: I couldn't live truth and write it at once. What
kind of partial truth can only be used in one way? surely truth is a
multipupose principle, not a single-use tool? So I would wager the poet
ironically celebrates the limits of language, and humbly declares his true
achievement of having become an intellectual rather than a spiritual seeker
for truth. But the rare candor that shines forth, from this most slippery
of American poets, affords a sense of relief and liberation as Thoreau
surrenders to the truth. The form of the poem, incidentally, is of an
epigraph, which is usually placed on a grave or in an announcement of
death.

Paul Bard from Australia
Comment 7 of 26, added on March 31st, 2005 at 4:39 AM.

THIS POEM IS SHORT BUT IT HAS GREAT DEEP MEANING

NEERU from India

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