Poem in Three Parts (Robert Fly)

Oh, on early morning I think I shall live forever

As the grass wrapped in its clouds of green

Rising from a bed, where I dreamt

Of long rides past castles and hot coals

I have suffered and survived he night

And live forever, like the dust

Paraphrase

The poem “Poem in three parts” by Robert fly tells us to live full of spirit, because with spirit we can pass any difficulties in life. It also tells that anything is beginning with a huge intention and spirit in our mind and we must get what we want latter on.

Comment

The poem tells about the complete action of life. Begin with spirit, struggling with any difficulties of life, and finally getting happy ending of life (get what we want). We can see it clearly as the poem divided into three parts.

The first part tells that anything must begin with spirit and intention. It is represented in the first line “Oh, on early morning I think I shall live forever”, early morning means in the beginning of life. Spirit and intention is represented in “I think I shall live forever”. Actually we will never live forever in this world, but it is only to emphasize how big the spirit that we need is to face our life which is not short. Beside spirit, we also need a huge intention. It is represented in the third line “as the grass is wrapped in its clouds of green”

The second part tells about struggling of life; struggle with any difficulties that we face in life. At the first stanza we can see the word “morning” but her it is changed into “rising from a bed”. It means that after we have a big spirit and intention in our mind, it is time for us to suffer any difficulties in life. Life can not be separated with difficulties. Those kinds of difficulties are presented in “hot coals”, the sun lies happily on my knees”, bathed in the dark water”. It also tells us that we can pass it if we struggle to face them. It represented in “I have suffered and survived the night”. Here night means difficulties in life. As we know that night is dark.

The third part tells that we will get what we want after suffering any difficulties. It is represented in “Plunging in the wind, call us to disappear”. Even we can dominate our life or the world (“into the wilds of universe”). At the end of the poem reminds us to keep our spirit in mind to face our life letter on, because if we have got what we want. It does not mean our life is over. We have still any challenge in the next. It is represented in the two last lines “where we shall sit at the foot of plant, and live forever like the dust”.

What the poet writes reminds me with my past experience. At that time, I took some course and tried to get good grade, but only with a little intention and less spirit, as a result I could not to get good grade and only got “C” at that time. A few months after that, I realize why I did not get what I want; because of less spirit and intention, I did not struggle hard to get it. In the next semester I re-take that course again but in this semester I had a huge intention to get a good grade. I studied hard and never skip the class and as a result at the end of semester I got an “A” on that course. So that, I can take a message that it is useless if we do something without any intention or huge spirit because we will not get optimal result.

Question:
What we can do if we still not get what we want yet after trying hard to get it?

Taken from Literature appreciation project