Question

The brook appears to be a symbol for life. Pick out examples of parallelism between life and the brook.

Answer 1

the poet through the life of the brook brings to attention the mortality of the human life. in contrast, the flow of the brook is continous and therefore eternal. the brook passes through various stages through which can be equated to the human life and the different stages through which the hum,an life goes thus cresting parallelism between the life of man and brook.
in its early stages the brook has a lot of energy and is playful like a young child. later on, the brook faces the challenges it comes across and rebels againsts the obstacles like a teenager would attempt to do . as time passes the brook calms down and is gentle with lots of maturitylike an adult.
in his final leg the brook is silent and slow like an old man. while the brook reaches its destiny and merges with the ocean which ends the life of human being with death.

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