"Vida humana": poema de Samuel Taylor Coleridge sobre la mortalidad y la negación de la inmortalidad
A respectable bake. You'd come back tomorrow for another.
Summary
Poema de Samuel Taylor Coleridge que reflexiona sobre la mortalidad y la negación de la inmortalidad. El poema explora la idea de que si la muerte es el fin absoluto de la existencia, entonces la vida humana es efímera como una ráfaga de verano, sin propósito trascendente. Coleridge cuestiona el sentido de la vida si el aliento es solo existencia biológica y no hay alma inmortal, comparando al ser humano con una colmena de zánganos con propósitos espectrales frente a la temible acción de la Naturaleza.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSi dejamos de ser al morir: si lo oscuro total devora el breve destello de la vida para siempre, el destino nuestro es el de las ráfagas del verano, con súbito nacimiento y final
Si el aliento es la Vida misma, y no su tarea y su tienda; si un alma cual la de Milton puede conocer qué es morir: ¡oh tú el hombre!, bajel sin destino
aunque colmena extraña de zánganos, zumbante de espectrales propósitos; tú, excedente y rebose de la temible acción de la Natural
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