Stages in Life
"We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun" (Dickinson).
This part of the poem reminds me of the stages of life. Children on a play ground = youth. They are shown wrestling. Perhaps it means that they are wrestling with who they will become. Or maybe they are wrestling with who they want to be and who their parents want them to be. Next, the fields of grazing grain = middle age adulthood. The fields relate to adulthood because it is just an open area and reminds me of a waiting point with no physical growth but more of a slow degeneration, hence the "grazing." Finally, old age = the setting sun. It seems self-explanatory; the sun sets on the world and the sun sets on life.
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun" (Dickinson).
This part of the poem reminds me of the stages of life. Children on a play ground = youth. They are shown wrestling. Perhaps it means that they are wrestling with who they will become. Or maybe they are wrestling with who they want to be and who their parents want them to be. Next, the fields of grazing grain = middle age adulthood. The fields relate to adulthood because it is just an open area and reminds me of a waiting point with no physical growth but more of a slow degeneration, hence the "grazing." Finally, old age = the setting sun. It seems self-explanatory; the sun sets on the world and the sun sets on life.
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I like you how you related each action/image to the aging of people and the lifecycle. As people get older they tend to look back and review the life they had. Dickinson just showed a preview of age, not too in depth but enough to realize that time does pass.