Please write a summary on "The best year of life" by Osbert Sitwell
Answers
Osbert Sitwell was a pathbreaking essayist who wrote against common beliefs and assumptions of the contemporary society.
In this poem he declares that the days of youth are not the best days in a man's life.
He further says that games played in childhood have no practical value in the later years of life.
He believes that the old years of grey hair are the best years of life because a person gains a lot of worldly experience by then.
Explanation:
According to Osbert Sitwell, the best years of one’s life is not the years of the youth as most people would say. He feels he has wasted his youth on unnecessary things.
He states that the games played in youth and other activities done in one’s youth are trivial and worthless. The best years of one’s life is undoubtedly the older years when one’s hair has grayed. One gains experience by then and that time is one of the best times of one’s life.