AS I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields—or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
It was kind of an interesting poem to read and try to analyze. I was able to compare it to my faith and belief because it could be with Jesus and how hard a life it was for him. Death is the consequence of working too hard, which basically means that everyone is going to end up dying, because everyone seems to work too hard at one time or another. We can take this the literal way too by saying that the ploughman in the fields is working extremely hard and is sowing in the fields, or harvesting, but he is seeing death whether he realizes it or not. Then he is using analogies to describe what is going on. Another explanation is that the sower, ploughman, and the harvester are God, and they sow the seeds of life, which is what the Bible is trying to say.
From the perspective of the common laborers, they are working their hardest to try and get their work done to do what is the best for themselves and get to heaven eventually. Self is also analyzed because of the life and death and how you give new life through the seeds that are sown, and thus giving new life to children.
This poem was weird because it was only like four lines, and we are supposed to get the meaning from the poem and write 325 words on it. That is something I found difficult because I for one could not get the meaning from the poem until we started discussing the meaning in class, and then I was able to actually figure it out, as I talked about it above. Therefore, this poem was difficult to decipher, as it was only four lines, and I didn't know how i was going to get a Christianity meaning from it.
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