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Charlotte Brontë, ‘Life’.

Life, believe, is not a dream


So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.

Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,


But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall?

So begins this poem from Charlotte Brontë (1816-55), the eldest of the three famous Brontë
sisters, which offers an update take on life: after acknowledging the hardships present so
often in people’s lives, the poet asserts that life is not so bad as all that.”

Questions :

1. What is the title of the poem?

Life

2. Who is the author of the poem?

Charle Bronte

3. What is the main theme or message of the poem?

The whole vision of the life, spreading the sense of life as a roller coaster, “Sometimes there
are clouds of gloom, but these are transient all”, that’s to say like every eclipse is ephemeral,
or so to say that life is a sum of shades of the colors of a rainbow.

4. What does the speaker mean by "Life, believe, is not a dream / So dark as sages say"?

The speaker wrote that to show us a pessimism of life, and that is able to be refuted by the
following verses, instead of show pessimism, he gave us a metaphoric tense speaking of the
way that life can seed hope into us.

5. What is the significance of the morning rain in the poem?

The significance of the morning rain involves the death of the blackness days, saying that’s
ephemeral. Using also the following sentences, it says that even if we have slips, life can
foretell peace and quiet.

6. What does the speaker mean by "Sometimes there are clouds of gloom, / But these are
transient all"?
The speaker means that life has falls, but they are fleeting, so they will finish.

7. What is the metaphorical meaning of "If the shower will make the roses bloom, / O
why lament its fall"?

I think its metaphorical meaning is somelike as that the falls are an opportunity to grow, or
like the poem said, “make the roses bloom”, and then said a wonder, that implies an
acceptance of the falls, to normalize them.

8. How does the poem's message relate to the human experience?

That everybody will have slips, these are inevitable, but we’ve got to remember that they are
fleeting, and also that they are an opportunity to change.

9. What is the tone of the poem?

It has a hopping tone, because it says that everything bad will end someday, and life isn’t so
bad as sages say.

10. What is the significance of the poem's structure and use of rhyme?

To emphasize the contrast between the verses that have rhyme.

Last question: How might the speaker's message in the poem relate to the concept of
resilience, and how could this message be applied in real-life situations?

The speaker’s message might be related with the concept of resilience by this following quote
“Sometimes there are clouds of gloom, But these are transient all; If the shower will make the
roses bloom, O why lament its fall?” In another words, the poet is accepting the life’s chaos,
and saying that is ephemeral, it’s to say that, life is chaos, so we have to accept it and attempt
to get better in despite of that fact.

Transient :Ephemeral

Foretell : To predict

Bloom : To produce flowers

Gloom : Blackness

Fleeting : Something that as a shooting star, it go away really fast, it’s to say, something
ephemeral or transient

Reframe : To conceptualize something again

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Halves

Sometimes I think we are nothing more

than two parallel lines that accidentally crossed paths.

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