What are the physical and emotional effects of aging as described in the poem ' Growing Old '?
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What are the physical and emotional effects of aging as described in the poem ' Growing Old '?
Explanation:
The poem Growing Old is by Matthew Arnold.
It consists of seven lines with five stanzas.
The poem starts with a question that is answered by the ending of the poem, “What is it to grow old?” This question is elucidated further on and described in the stanzas that follow. The first stanza shows the loss of physical beauty and the second about the loss of physical strength and feeling in limbs. The third stanza of the poem talks of the expectations one had about age during youth and how these expectations are not fulfilled. Old age isnt a warm sunset, it isnt looking back on one’s life with fondness. One is trapped in one’s body as a prison.