What Are Years?

After reading the poem you will find that the title merely mocks the idea of aging and life's bounds on mankind. "What Are Years" as if the speaker is asking because he has never let age hold him back. This idea is further backed by the poem with the idea that death and misfortune encourage people to force past them and strive, "that is misfortune, even death, encourages others. On the other side the speaker says that people who do strive, effluence others to follow in their path. The idea of the poem invokes a feeling to triumph over harshness and not allow worldly difficulties to hold you back, to act as if it is possible to escape limitations. This idea is reinforced in line 19. "So he who strongly feels behaves" The thought of thinking strong leads to becoming strong, determination. The last line gives us an interesting idea. "This is mortality, this is eternity" While the speaker is still mortal he feels that he can live for an eternity, as though immortal, A very uplifting idea. When the reader is finished they come out with a sense that anything can be accomplished, making the "imprisonment" that we have in life a boundary worth fighting against........ya something like that...this is why I dont post stuff and keep my thoughts in my little blue book