“Some say plants don’t speak,” she writes, “Stars and fountains and flowers, don’t murmur against my dream; could I delight in you without them, without them, could I live?” (Line 14-15). She is asking herself if she can continue living her life the way she is when most people think that nature does not symbolize life. More than that however, she is able to dream of things like “the eternal spring of life” because she sees past the practicality of life. Through the greatness of nature she can dream of better things as she approaches death. Nature as she explains it is a form of comfort, something that allows people to dream and see life in as full of chances. Through the fact that nature is hard to explain and to some one that doesn’t know
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Castro’s poem “I well know there is something,” describes how we are living a simple and dull life, and how we are “clocks that repeat forever the same” (Lines 7-8), in other words there is no change in our day to day life. Everyday people wake up go to work come home go to sleep and anything in between is minor and has little meaning if any at all. In her poem, “The Ailing Women felt her forces ebb,” a women is sick and is ready to die. She says, “In autumn I shall die” (Line 3). In autumn, trees become leafless, cold weather, rain, and wind come in to play. If God listens to the woman, she would die in a horrible season in which she can’t enjoy the beauties of the world or nature. Instead, she survives until spring and sees the attractions of nature, teasing her with new life as she dies. She expected to die in autumn, instead she dies in spring, giving her a last peak of the amazing and beautiful things she is going to miss out on. Her dying at the same time that the flowers are blooming in the spring is the perfect example of how Castro relates the cycle of life to the cycle of nature. Throughout a persons life working and making it for himself and being in a clock like routine dominates his life and he doesn’t realize how fast the time has gone until he is older and appreciates life in a different way which in this case is her possibly dying in the fall rather than the spring. However once spring time has arrived and she sees nature blooming all around her she has an even newer realization of nature and its
Castro’s poem “I well know there is something,” describes how we are living a simple and dull life, and how we are “clocks that repeat forever the same” (Lines 7-8), in other words there is no change in our day to day life. Everyday people wake up go to work come home go to sleep and anything in between is minor and has little meaning if any at all. In her poem, “The Ailing Women felt her forces ebb,” a women is sick and is ready to die. She says, “In autumn I shall die” (Line 3). In autumn, trees become leafless, cold weather, rain, and wind come in to play. If God listens to the woman, she would die in a horrible season in which she can’t enjoy the beauties of the world or nature. Instead, she survives until spring and sees the attractions of nature, teasing her with new life as she dies. She expected to die in autumn, instead she dies in spring, giving her a last peak of the amazing and beautiful things she is going to miss out on. Her dying at the same time that the flowers are blooming in the spring is the perfect example of how Castro relates the cycle of life to the cycle of nature. Throughout a persons life working and making it for himself and being in a clock like routine dominates his life and he doesn’t realize how fast the time has gone until he is older and appreciates life in a different way which in this case is her possibly dying in the fall rather than the spring. However once spring time has arrived and she sees nature blooming all around her she has an even newer realization of nature and its