Growing Old - Matthew Arnold (Motivational Life Poem)

Growing Old is a remarkable motivational poem exploring the numerous implications of growing old. Old age is such in which the indications of youth have all disappeared and we find ourselves emotionless, frozen while people value and appreciate an old man’s wisdom.

In the poem, Arnold questions his readers as to what it would be like to grow old. Whether it would be like to lose the glory; great honor, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown: something conferring honor or renown: a highly praiseworthy asset: adoration, praise, and thanksgiving offered in worship: majestic beauty and splendor; resplendence: the splendor and bliss of heaven; perfect happiness: a height of achievement, enjoyment, or prosperity: of the form; the shape and structure of an object: the body or outward appearance of a person or an animal considered separately from the face or head; figure: the essence of something: the mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself; kind.

Generally, young people frequently imagine the joys of being older, however, when the time actually arrives and we have aged, we can no longer enjoy life, in the same manner, we used to.

It’s because as we age, our bodies have slowed down and as a result, we have become frail and extremely feeble. The poet is trying to say that we should enjoy the present time we’re given in life rather than looking forward to a particular age that we think we will enjoy.

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