Orpheus: Poem Analysis

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The play was very similar to a poem I used to read called Dontes inferno. I love that it’s a sad and dark play it is most definitely a tragedy. The way I feel after watching it made me die inside. I love the person I am currently with and I am planning on getting married to her, like in the play and yet I know that we can die anytime and anywhere. I cannot imagine the sadness of the loss of a friend or a person I love is what hurts me the most. The play is something I got really personal with maybe the story or the fact I’m in the black box but I felt a similar connection to Orpheus. The saddest part to me is when Eurydice writes a letter to Orpheus’ future wife where it says to take care of him and be nice. The reason I was about to fall …show more content…
The only point on a funeral is to send the ones who has passed a nice place in where ever they go. People believe in a lot of things in religion and things but the true way to understand what death is like is to experience it but not a lot of people come back from being dead not like a zombie. The way we live our lives is what people say at our funerals the ones that love us tell you how we were the one you love shows the people how we loved in our lives. The celebration of humanity comes from our time of birth to our death and that is just simply our …show more content…
The way this play teaches us about the world is to love one love all. This means if you can find it in your heart to love someone than you have it in your heart to love everyone. Just like death comes to us all we can love all. The world is full of hate after seeing this play it would be better to see that love can conquer anything and it can kill as well. The love Orpheus shows towards Eurydice is his own love the love he shows is from things that he loves. Like when he says that he wrote a song for her and her hair would be the instruments and he will have twelve melodies that will form this beautiful song. That is love and then she dies. Orpheus struggles and eventually dies as well. He sees a letter that Eurydice wrote and well, because he’s dead, it’s just a paper to him because the other part of the theme is death and that leads me to say, when we die we still won’t experience love in the way we used to when we were

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