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Do you think this is true?
I've been giving these lines a lot of thought, and I'm still undecided. So what do you guys think? Are people really like this?
"We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught"
- To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelly -
Yes, he did write "the cloud". Great poem ;)
5 Answers
- Ambi valentLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I do think we all have a spiritual longing for something we can never reach. That's true of atheists too, as I'm not talking about a longing for any version of G-d, but for something 'beyond' which we may touch in music or on top of mountain or when we see a new-born baby or whatever. And that may mean that the source of our laughter, being about the dissonance between things, connects to the pain of our longing.
It's time I re-read Shelley, after having not done so for almost 40 years........!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes,very true for the vast majority,how I wish I was in the minority.
Edit,on second thoughts,I think I would be a little less than human if I was in the minority.
Source(s): I will never shop at Tesco again. - 1 decade ago
It seems like it is!!
But I like the poet- didn't he write The Cloud? Amazing visuals that poem has!!
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