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Leisure Quationa and Answers
Leisure Quationa and Answers
inviting eyes, she may start dancing out of joy. But the young man is in such hurry that he ignores such fascinating scenes of beauty and goes to attend to his business of life. ************************************* William Davies laments the hurried manner in which we spend our lives depriving ourselves of savouring the richness and diversity that life offers. Discuss with reference to his poem, Leisure? William Davies laments in his poem,Leisure about the hurried manner in which we spend our lives depriving ourselves of savoring the richness and diversity that life has to offer. He is sorry for the modern man who is so much absorbed in his material pursuits that he hardly finds any time to see the colors and hear the sounds of life. Nature and manifestations of nature are lying bare and open for us everywhere but we have closed our eyes for these. There are trees and plants. There are squirrels in the woods. There are brightly shinning waves in the stream. There are twinkling stars in the sky. Beauty itself is present. It is looking at us with its sweet glance. Its eyes are smiling and its lips are also going to smile. Its feet are going to dance. But we are so strange persons that we dont have any leisure or spare time to see the beauty incarnate and enjoy seeing it! We are passing a very poor life because we may have collected a lot of wealth, still we lack the appreciation of beauty that lies bare for use everywhere in the world. We are always busy in getting and spending money and do not at nature which is ours as Wordsworth has put it in oe of his sonnets. According to Davies, life is nothing but a constant cares and worry if we are unable to find leisure for standing and staring at nature and its manifestations like simpleton. Life must be enjoyed and relished and appreciated in a leisurely manner! Ere