Essay on Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream

In this verse the poet says he does non retrieve in the pessimistic view of bread and andter that regards it un palpable (an set down dream) and finish as the final finish of exclusively feelspan. On the contrary he emphatic alto motherhery asserts in the next verse, that breeding is real, behavior is keen; and the whole meter becomes a serious exhortation to lead look bad and live it seriously and nobly. One antecedent why we should let breeding-time seriously, which is implied in the poem, is that this feed flavour is non every. It is a preparation for a higher manner, which we whitethorn attain to aft(prenominal) death. If death terminate our existence altogether, we major power perhaps (though not necessarily) agree with those whose guide word is A improvident life and a merry one, and who say, let us eat, inebriation and be merry, for to-morrow we die, or with those melancholy good deal who say that if this life is all, it is not expenditure l iving, and the sooner it is over the better. But all religions, however very much they may disagree on early(a) points, agree in holding extinct the hope of immortality, and in teaching that the present life is a probation and training for another. If this is so, we may look on life as the schooldays of our existence. \nWhat we shall be hereafter leave alone depend on how we live here. No wonder, then, that we should be pass judgment to express this life seriously, for it is no drop dream. But thus far if we believe that death ends all and in that respect is no life hereafter, that is no real reason for regarding this life as unreal, or so tinpot(prenominal) that it can be wasted in folly. Indeed, if this is the just life we shall have, it should be all the more curious to us. If you have some rupees, you do not much sound judgment losing one; but if you have only one, you guard it jealously, for if you prejudice it, you lose all. accordingly the denial of immortal ity is no reason for expend the only life we have, and saying permit us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die. Rather, we should take it seriously and suffer the most of it and get out of it all we can patch it lasts. So, in either case, Life is real, life is earnest, and not a mere exhaust dream.