After reading the seventh poem that Whitman wrote I thought about a very common thought nowadays which is the idea of seizing the day. This means enjoying everything about life, all about it. At the beginning of this poem he states, “Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?”(Poem 7) This clearly states the idea of enjoying every second of our lives since we are so lucky of experiencing one.
After a very positive first line, we read, “I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it”. (Poem 7) Here we hear again the idea that when you die you do on to the next life which is so much better than this one. But I was captivated by the last part of this line, “and I know it”. Here the author is saying that he has experienced it, death. I thought about this for a couple of seconds and could not find an answer to this. What exactly does Whitman mean with this?
After a very positive first line, we read, “I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it”. (Poem 7) Here we hear again the idea that when you die you do on to the next life which is so much better than this one. But I was captivated by the last part of this line, “and I know it”. Here the author is saying that he has experienced it, death. I thought about this for a couple of seconds and could not find an answer to this. What exactly does Whitman mean with this?
But Carpe Diem is a latin, hence a Roman expression. There may be a relatively new modern understanding of this, but I don't think it's a contemporary problem.
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