Philosophical Bases of Literature Final Exam
PARAPHRASE
Poem#1: Patience Pays, Impatience Costs! by
Ramdas Bhandarkar
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/patience-pays-impatience-costs/
Life
is a series of event that we cannot ever guess, so try to be patience and just
live it just the way it is: do plan for the future but not expect too much, and
let life decides.
We
cannot dictate life, no matter how much we tried to understand and handle it,
since it is neither a riddle nor a puzzle. Life is something out of hand,
something that we cannot, and should not ever understand, because that is how
life works: with mystery.
A dependent child with her/his parents
is equivalent to human’s relationship with life. Life consists of both nature
and society, and human is a part of it. Thus, we cannot ignore the fact that
we, as a part of them, must surrender to the whole to make life works.
Overall, the poem advices to
surrender to life just the way it is, which like I mentioned in the three
paragraphs before.
Poem#2: I Have Learned by Courtney
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/poem-about-trust-issues
The poem tells us that trust is
something that we have to learn and to realize; how powerful it is, how hard it
is to discover, and how sometimes it is formed as lust.
It is powerful, because it may
either crush or lift you in the most possible way. Trust can take you to the
most joyful state, but also to the extreme opposite of it.
It is hard to discover, just like
any other intangible emotions. So, the only way to find out is to experience it
by yourself, even if it means to make your way through the ups and downs of
emotions, we can and will learn about it eventually to make our own way in the
world.
Since trust is one quality that is
hard to get, and we know how it may be hard to handle, we still cannot avoid
it. Trust means lust, she says, and lust is a must. If that is the case, then
we have to surrender, but with one caution; we may trust someone, but
distinguish between the good and the evil in them, and always carefully choose
the former.
INTERTEXTUALITY
Patience Pays, Impatience Costs! by
Ramdas Bhandarkar and I Have Learned by
Courtney are two poems which blatantly tells about life and the emotions in it.
There are two things that will be elaborated in the next paragraphs; how the two
poems relate to each other and how the poems are based on my personal opinion.
The
two poems relates in a way, regarding to the theme which is surrender. The
first poem by Bhandarkar focuses on how important and necessary it is for us,
human, to surrender to our surrounding. He pinpoints that the basic way to live
is to wait, and to let life makes its way to us, such as being portrayed in the
stanza “Patiently plan your life, or wait patiently for Life’s plan for you!”.
The latter, also pinpoint the importance to trust something, even though we may
lose hope and even trust itself. Surrendering to trust is a must, in which she
says in a stanza that “trust means to lust and lust is a must”.
Both
of the poems may also function as advices for our lives; how to live it and
what to do with trust. We can see how they rather focus on surrendering than
resisting, in which I do not 100% agree. To surrender in life is something that
I rather see often, and even one author that I respect, Oscar Wilde, says in
his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” that “The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it. In contrary, I do not see the good in it, since I
experienced it myself. I believe that everything in life, with all our might,
have to be balanced. Just like the last stanza in the poem I Have Learned, “Trust everyone, but not the devil inside”, which I
think is confusing. How can we know the devil inside? The answer must be to be
cautious, so it still imply that we cannot 100% trust someone. That is the same
with the poem Patience Pays, Impatience
Costs, where we could not and should not surrender to life. One anonymous
quote says that “If we want to yield to the flow of the water, no. Everything
that got stuck with the floods are only trash and shit.” I think it is also good for us to be riot, with all our
might to life our life, just like what Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet, states, “Do
not go gentle into that good night, rage against the dying of the light.”
Nevertheless, I still believe that we should be balanced, because life is a
circle of surrendering and resisting.
The
poems are good in some sense, and it contains a good sense of advices for life.
But still, everything depends on the person’s perspective, and personally I
cannot agree with it 100%.
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