Question

Pls give me this poem total summary.

Answer 1

A man today was a child yesterday and a child today will be a man tomorrow. From childhood begins manhood. The poet wishes to pass hisdays as a continuous chain showing deep respect for nature. We generally suppose thatthe man is the father, not the child. So this linelooks like a paradox. But the poet wants to say that from the childhood begins the manhood. Yesterday’s child is today’s man and today’s child is tomorrow’s man. Here theword “father” means “one from whom something begins”. So from childhood beginsmanhood.The first and the second lines show the effectthat watching the rainbow in the sky makes the poet very happy. The third and the fourth lines say about the same event in the past and the present and the fifth line presents the natural continuation of the same event in the future. The sixth line expresses his wish to dieif the continuation of the natural event is broken. The seventh line shows the central idea of the poem: the present is the outcome of the past, so naturally the future will be the outcome of the present. The last two lines show a happy mood of relaxation that is life tied with deep respect for nature, after getting consolation from the ideas of continuity. In this poem poet uses present, past and future tenses. He uses the present tense to express his present happiness, his present manhood and the theme of the poemand his wish. He uses the past tense to say that there was a rainbow in the sky when he was born. He uses the future to talk about this old age. As natural events are continuous,so is the time. To show the continuity of time he uses the past tense, the present tense, andthe future tense.