Please analyze this quote

[Burnboy]

emotions are the same whether positive or negative so dont let then bother you and live your life carpe diem

 

[prince of a guy]

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!


I wonder if any of you guys know where this came from, and what it means... Karma to whoever guesses first.

I'm not sure but I seem to remember this poem from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I read the book more than 25 years ago so I may be wrong. But, if I'm right, it probably came from Chapter 10.

If you want me to provide some interpretation, that will cost you extra.

 

[strongchick]

karma. now.

http://dreamwater.org/shawnmikula/mutability.html



Mutability
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly! -- yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost forever:

Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.

We rest. -- A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise. -- One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:

It is the same! -- For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.

 

[strongchick]

an interpretation is here....

Buddhist stuff.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8916/fundamental.html

 

[daised]

emotions are the same whether positive or negative so dont let then bother you and live your life carpe diem

i agree with carpe diem. the rhyme scheme is ABABABAB.
eight lines so an octet-has a british feel for it. maybe Elizabethan time period. I don't know i'm not good with literature.

 

[strongchick]

sounds like you are right on it...

http://www.bartleby.com/people/ShelleyP.html


1792–1822, English poet, b. Horsham, Sussex. He is ranked as one of the great English poets of the romantic period.—

 

[strongchick]

I'm a genius with Google. <snicker>

 

[daised]

oh, i didn't use any resources. seriously. we studied some of this stuff last year in english.i remember almost everything i read, and can follow similarities. I'm in academic english and everyone in my class hates me because i always get into a long discussion with the teacher about the themes of a book or what drives the main character. I love to read, but can't write worth shit. Books have always been my escape.

i'm pretty proud of myself for knowing that.

 

[prince of a guy]

props to prince of a guy, he hit the bullseye...

The term is "bull's eye."


... and thanks.