I will amend this later to add the novel which incorporated this poem into its work, but I want to remind myself of Robert Browning's poem Grow Old Along with Mehttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173031
I'm perturbed by all who dismiss early literature and history because they are about dead white men.
first, that's a racist comment by people espousing nonracial epithets. Second, dismissing early figures because they are dead falsely assumes that we can learn nothing from the past or those who lived there. This is a very dangerous and naive assumption. I expect to hear those kinds of comments made from teens not from adults who should know better. Yes, history and literature may have a bias we don't agree with, but are the accounts and stories we like any better or give more affirmative life lessons?
Yes, the best may yet to be, but it comes at the price of living and loving from the past years no matter how immediate.
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