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excalaber

Can anyone explain this line to me....
"To the people the end of life is the life created for them: to the poet the end of life is the life he creates for himself"

echo beach

I'm no expert and am not sure where the line comes in the play but reading it as a standalone line I would say that possibly the word 'end' means 'purpose' or 'reason' rather than 'finish'.
Using that definition you could read the line as meaning that people in general accept their fate as whatever happens to them while a poet creates their own destiny and shapes their own fate from the view they take of the circumstances they find themselves in.

excalaber

Ahhh i think you've cracked it for me
...thanks

echo beach wrote: »

I'm no expert and am not sure where the line comes in the play but reading it as a standalone line I would say that possibly the word 'end' means 'purpose' or 'reason' rather than 'finish'.
Using that definition you could read the line as meaning that people in general accept their fate as whatever happens to them while a poet creates their own destiny and shapes their own fate from the view they take of the circumstances they find themselves in.

excalaber

Heres the paragraph

excalaber wrote: »

Ahhh i think you've cracked it for me
...thanks