We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh, or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure is still free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!
This passage, from Percy Shelley's "On Mutability," was placed in the text. What is its purpose? Does it establish the mood? Foreshadow impending and constant change? Or is it a universal passage, applicable to everyone, everywhere?
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I think it is a universal passage that can apply to anyone. It talks about how everything changes and how we really dont have that much control over what happens in our life. So we shouldnt try to hard to make things the way we want them to be because they are just going to change. VF creating his monster but it then chaning to be the worse thing in his life.
Maybe the only thing we can count on is change; therefore why fight for stability? Or, on the flip side, don't sweat it--it will change,,happiness becomes sadness, tears become laughter...in my case muscle becomes fat.
I agree, change is the only constant in life.
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