appreciation for the poem how did you die
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How Did You Die?
By
Edmund Vance Cooke
‘How did you die?’ by Edmund Vance Cooke is a motivating poem giving the reader the wisdom and the courage to deal with ordeals and troubles of life in the ideal manner.
He starts the poem with a question asking how we tackled the trouble that came. Were we determined and cheerful when it came; or did we react cowardly and fearfully and hid somewhere?
He explains trouble becomes big or small according to our attitude to it. It does not matter whether the trouble hurt you or not; what matters is how you handled the trouble.
He tells us we may get beaten lying flat on earth; well such an experience is normal, we should immediately get up smilingly. As falling is normal, but to continue to lie there is disgrace.
He further tells us a secret; and the secret is the harder we are thrown down by troubles, the higher we bounce back.
If while dealing with troubles, we get a black eye (hurt or injured badly), we should be proud of it. Finally it does not matter how badly we were hurt or injured; what matters is how we fought the troubles.
We may die fighting the troubles; but if we fought the best; or if we did our part the best, the critics will praise us.
Death comes to all; it may come suddenly or it may come quietly; our dying does not matter; what matters is how we died; whether we died like a coward or like a courageous hero.