金缕衣

金缕衣 《金缕衣》A Gold-threaded Robe Only in their dreams can men be 劝君莫惜金缕衣，Spare not a truly free. gold-threaded robe, I assure you, Learn to think for yourselves again. 劝君惜取少年时。Spare but every bit of No matter what anybody tells you, your youth time, I urge you; words and ideas can change the world. 花开堪折直须折，A blooming flower entails an opportune picking, We don't read and write poetry 莫待无花空折枝。Await not an empty stem because it's cute. We read and write for the vain plucking. poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time filled with passion. And medicine, law, by Robert Herrick(1591 - 1674) business, engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, sustain life. But poetry, Old Time is still a-flying: beauty,romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for. And this same flower that smiles to-day, The Dead Poets was dedicated to To-morrow will be dying. "sucking the marrow out of life". I went to the woods because I wanted Come my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek anewer world for my purpose to live deliberately. I wanted to live holds to sail beyond the sunset. And deep and suck out all the marrow of though we are not now that strength life～To put to rout all that was not life. which in old days Moved earth and heaven;that which we are, we are;-- And not, when I came to die, discover One equal temper of heroic hearts, that I had not lived. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find,and not stop breathing, turn cold, and die. to yield. Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in your lives extraordinary. another way. Even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try! Now,when To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter,rhyme and you read, don't just consider what the figures of speech, then ask two author thinks. Consider what you think. questions: 1) How artfully has the Boys,you must strive to find your own objective of the poem been rendered voice. Because the longer you wait to and 2) How important is that objective? We're not laying pipe. begin, the less likely you are to find it at though others may think them odd or all. unpopular, even though the herd may Most men lead lives of quiet go. desperation.(Thoreau)Don't be I want you to find your own walk resigned to that. Break out! Don't just right now. Your own way of striding, walk off the edge like lemmings. pacing. Any direction. Anything you want. Whether it's proud,whether it's For me, sport is actually a chance for silly, anything. Gentlemen, the us to have other human beings push us courtyard is yours. to excel. You don't have to perform. Just Oh to struggle against great odds. make it for yourself. To meet enemies undaunted. Swim against the stream. To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports. Becuase believe or not, each one of us in Oh, I live to be the ruler of life, not this room is one day going to stop a slave. breathing, turn cold and die. I'd like you to 我息安之如泰。To mount the step forward of you and peruse some of scaffolds. To advance to the muzzle of the faces from the past. They're not that guns with perfect nonchalance. different from you , are they? Same Oh, to have life henceforth the haircuts. poem of new joys. Full of hormones. Just like you. To indeed be a god! Invincible just like you fell. The world is Sometimes the most beautiful their oyster. They belive they're destined poetry can be about simple things.Just for great things, just like many of you, their don't let your poems be ordinary. eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they Truth is like, like a blanket that wait until it was too late to make from their always leaves your feet cold.You push lives evenone iota of what they were it, stretch it, it'll never be enough.You capable? Because, you see gentelman, kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of these boys are now fertilising daffodils. us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will But if you listen real close, you can just cover your face as you wail and cry hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go and scream. on, lean in. Listen, you hear it ? the difficulty in maintaining your Carpe...hear it?...Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day, boys, make your lives own beliefs in the face of others. extrordinary。 we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even