ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - The Golden Bird
4 Nov 2013
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The speaker is an old man who is very aware of the fact that he is aging, and is accepting his mortality. He is in the present time but he does not like the world as it is anymore. He feels distant from the scene he is describing and he explains how the younger generations are. caught in their own pleasure and have no idea of what lies ahead. He is almost moving away from his importance, and the physical mortal world is also diminishing as well as his value inside it. He retreats from the mortal world and he goes to a place where he believes he is going to find immortality. He is looking for permanence which is not in the present world, so he goes into the past. He understands that the soul is linked to immortality and that is what he seeks. He wants to leave his physical self behind and transcend into immortal existence.
