what is life compared to in the first stanza of the poem Life is a game? why do you think the poet make the comparison
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The speaker goes to the river and sits down by the bank to think. He cannot concentrate so he jumps into the water and sinks. He surfaces and cries out twice. If the water had not been so frigid he would have died, he says, “But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!”
He takes the elevator to the sixteenth floor of his building, where he thinks about his “baby” and considers jumping. He stands up there and yells, and if it had not been so high, he might have leapt off and died. “But it was High up there! it was high!” He says.
He comments that since he is still living, he might as well live on. He might have died for love but he was born to live. He says to his baby that he would “dogged” if she were to see him die. He concludes, “Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!”
Analysis:
The spirited and jaunty “Life is Fine” is not one of Hughes’s more well-known works, but has many similarities to his other poems. It tells the story of a man with a jubilant spirit and the ability to remain optimistic in the face of personal despair. It is energetic and musical, and the structure resembles that of a blues song. The poem has six stanzas with a varied refrain at the end of each one. Hughes utilizes frequent repetition to emphasize his message.
He takes the elevator to the sixteenth floor of his building, where he thinks about his “baby” and considers jumping. He stands up there and yells, and if it had not been so high, he might have leapt off and died. “But it was High up there! it was high!” He says.
He comments that since he is still living, he might as well live on. He might have died for love but he was born to live. He says to his baby that he would “dogged” if she were to see him die. He concludes, “Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!”
Analysis:
The spirited and jaunty “Life is Fine” is not one of Hughes’s more well-known works, but has many similarities to his other poems. It tells the story of a man with a jubilant spirit and the ability to remain optimistic in the face of personal despair. It is energetic and musical, and the structure resembles that of a blues song. The poem has six stanzas with a varied refrain at the end of each one. Hughes utilizes frequent repetition to emphasize his message.
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Life is compared to game because it gives us many twists and turns just as a game have.
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