LTEA 142 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wols
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A person is leaving the speaker and the speaker feels sad about it. The speaker (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t shed a tear for this. The poem was about his talented friend. So wol never had any close friends in the literary world. Ki(cid:373) ok (cid:449)rote a poe(cid:373) a(cid:271)out so wol"s failure to (cid:373)ake a (cid:272)areer for hi(cid:373)self i(cid:374) the (cid:449)orld. It is human nature to love life and abhor death. When a person of talent dies before having a real chance to show it, that is sad. As time passes, a person will lose track of his memories. The poet had tried many different kinds of work, all of which ended in failure. He is looking at that desolate, cruel reality. Sowol turned with a sorrowful look back to the time when he had been filled with great enthusiasm for writing, but he had to brush this aside.
