leisure poem summary
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William Davies an American poet and singer by the means of his poem explains the biggest problem of today’s life. Each and every individual is so occupied and busy with their day to day work, to achieve the larger objectives in life that they forget to notice the smaller things in life and the happiness they can derive out of these smaller things.
The beauty of nature for example is essential to be noticed. But today nobody has the time to stop for a minute also and observe the extraordinary pleasure in ordinary things such as standing under the trees and witnessing its beauty just like the cows and sheep do. When we get up in the morning, we fail to notice that a new beautiful day is waiting for us. All we are interested in is conducting our daily jobs and work.
Human beings in fact today are similar to a machine. They get up at a fixed alarm time, reach their schools, colleges and offices on time, have their lunch, breakfast and dinner on time and today people also have separate time allotted only for their family. Can you call such an individual a human? No you cannot. That individual is obviously a machine programmed to carry out work on the allotted time.