in the second stanza what are the older people doing and what does it make them remember (The Echoing Green)
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The old folks are sitting beneath the shade of an oak tree watching the children playing on the green field and they laugh seeing children playing and those remind them of their own childhood days.
Answer:
In the second stanza, time has progressed. The older people remember their youth, as these children will someday be reminded of it by their own descendants. Spring is still here, but it is a spring remembered, not the vibrant, impassioned spring of the children in the first stanza. Already the flowers fade and the possibility of endings, and eventually of death, is present. Nonetheless, the old people “laugh at [the children's] play,” suggesting a pleasure taken by the more mature in the sheer innocent joy of youth. Similarly, the tone of the stanza is not intended to be sorrowful, but inspiring. That the older people are still around is a testimony to the persistence of life; the oak of the second stanza stands in the green as a symbol of strength and security to accentuate this feeling.
Explanation:
Regardless of the elderly quality though, “Old John” still finds happiness in the children’s antics, and the young narrator is aware of this detail as he comments things like how the observers “laugh at [the] play.” But even in this child’s description of the elders genuinely finding enjoyment, there’s the first hint of melancholy showing itself in the latter lines of the stanza. This sad twist arises through the reminiscing of the elder generation about the times when they were all “girls & boys” who experienced similar joys as the children’s. Though the observers remember those days and can still enjoy the children’s happiness, they will never again be able to experience that same free quality and activity as the children currently are.
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