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Summary Growing old
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An analysis of the poem growing old for matric English HL
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18. Growing OldBY Matthew Arnold [1822 – 1888]
Speaker has presented the readers
with the question of what it is to
& grow old A
Y
What is it to grow old?
Loose looks
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The luster of the eye?
Is it for beauty to forego her wreath?
—Yes, but not this alone. 5
The question is still Questio
being presented to n
Is it to feel our strength—
the reader
look
Not our bloom
s only, but our strength—decay?
Is it to feel each limb
Less strong
Grow stiffer, every function less exact,
loosing your mind
Each nerve more loosely strung? 10
Yes, this, and more; but not
Ah, ’tis not what in youth we dreamed ’twould be!
’Tis not to have our life
In youth speaker believed old age
Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow,
was a relaxing journey
A golden day’s decline. 15
comparison
’Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
Not wise - And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
make a list
The years that are no more. 20
It is to spend long days
Everything is boring and dreary
And not once feel that we were ever young;
contained against will
It is to add, immured
In the hot prison of the present, month
Can’t escape the present
To month with weary pain. 25
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