Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Analysis

Life Has End

We all know that everything in this world will end, either living or non-living things. Human will end their lives in a specific time. Animals and plants too are engaged to end their lives. Even non-living things like buildings, they will end. Some of them crack because of the years or the period they had been built.

We must enjoy life to the fullest but in meaningful ways. It is because we do not know the time when we are going to be engaged to death. We must do all important things we need to do for our better lives. We must remember that we are going to be put in graves when we are dead. We must give our best to all. We must not ignore to help other people because in times of we need help, they will also help us in return.

We must accept opportunities that came to our lives and strive hard for better future. We should face the challenges of life, not just to surrender our lives. All of us must use our time wisely giving our lives a meaning. While we are still living in this world, we must enjoy doing good things for ourselves and for others, and so, we can gain happy moments. We must also be fair to others since we will all reach the time of death. So, we enjoy life to the fullest..!

The Whistle Analysis

Life First Before Pleasure

This text conveys to us that we must think of the importance of life, not thinking all about for fun or pleasure. Like in the story, he bought a thing, a whistle, by all his money without thinking that if he bought a whistle seriously and mindedly, he could buy four whistles. But he used his money to buy for only one since it gives him fun. He is being charmed by the sound of the whistle as another boy created a sound using it. He then realized that this thing can cause many undesirable situations. One of these is the disturbance of all the family since a whistle could produce a loud sound. Another is that he could buy other important things if he never pays all his money for only one whistle.

Based on my experience, I also encountered this kind of situation. There was a time that I accompanied my friends watching a movie and so, I had to pay the cost of one ticket for the said movie. The movie cost one hundred fifty pesos. And that, because of my excitement and decision to be with my friends that time, I spent that much. After watching the movie, I suddenly realized that I spent too much. I learned that if I spent the one hundred fifty pesos for food, I could satisfy my hunger that time and that if I was not accompanying my friends, I could go home early and avoid my mother from scolding me.

Now, I suggest and remind everyone that we must use our money and time in good ways. We must use them meaningfully. We must never use all of them only for fun. We must give parts to some important things in our lives like food for healthy body not just all for fun.

The Gift of the Magi Analysis

Give and Receive

As I’ve read the story “The Gift of the Magi”, I found it slightly funny. It’s because they buy things as gifts for their loved ones but these gifts are just wasted. These are wasted just because the things intended for the gifts are the ones they sold just to buy the gift for each other. They loved each other very much. That’s why they found ways like this.

If I were in the situation, I may feel angry to myself for what is done. It is very disappointing to have this kind of situation especially like them who are said to be very poor. Della sold her hair just to buy a fob for the watch of her husband Jim and Jim sold his watch just to buy a comb as a gift for Della. But it is also funny to have this situation since they strive hard for nothing. It is only my opinion since I haven’t encountered this kind of situation.

For the people who encountered the same situation, they commonly got angry to the person intended for the gift since they thought that it was just a waste of money to buy things for nothing. That is why I learned in this story how life is being set to us by God. There are times that because of our wish to have a certain thing, we cannot think of others how and what he or she wish to give to us. Sometimes, we sold our possessions to buy a gift for our loved ones without thinking that our loved ones have something to give intended for our possessions just to make us happy.

Sonnet 116 Analysis

Time Never Affects True Love

The Sonnet 116 of William Shakespeare states that love is eternal. Love is not only a feeling that lasts for ‘months’ or ‘years’ but a feeling which lasts ‘forever’. This will show that the love is true. It’s only a play of feelings if that’s the case. The poem also conveys that love cannot be changed by time. In other words, if you love and suddenly you decided to stop your relationship or shall we call ‘cooloff’, that love is also not true. He also added that if love is true, it cannot be shaken and destroyed by temptations.

Based on my friend’s experience, not my experience since I haven’t tried to love seriously, once you broke up your relationship with someone, you will never repair it back since this kind of love is not totally true. My friend also said that he must only love a person who will love him truly and who will love him forever. I think what he said is true because if you untruly love a person, he or she might find another person to be loved. Even I haven’t tried yet to love seriously, I still felt what the loving person feels and thinks in a relationship. I also agree with the saying that “LOVE can wait” since love does not matter about time. Even about years, if you love someone, you can wait. And if that’s so, your love for that person is totally true.

Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening Analysis

Living and Leaving

This poem by Robert Frost is said to be conveying life and death of a person. We all know that life is very important and there are times wherein we never think about it. All we think is happiness. But what about the challenges and problems we encounter in daily lives? These things can never be avoided because as long as we are living in this world, problems are with us.

Based on my experience, I sometimes think to end my life especially when there are problems which for me seem to be difficult to solve. As we all know, problems are given to us by God because we can solve it, not just a chance to end our lives. Suddenly, I think and learn that if I will end my life right away, it is like escaping the challenges of life. That is why I try proving to myself that I can solve and I can surpass these problems. It's because for me, if I will surrender facing those challenges, I can't see the beauty of life and I can't understand the meaning of life. I now know that we still have important things to do to make our life meaningful, even more meaningful.

In the last stanza of the poem, it conveys to us that the persona still has promises to keep or shall we call things to do in life before he will be engaged to death. That's why, maybe he faced the challenges he encountered as he continued living.