Men At Forty The Aging Process :: Forty

custody At Forty The Aging Process Men At Forty If asked what is the more or less miraculous thing in the world, most people would say that birth is definitely in the top five. But, does anyone always say that getting older, or up to now dying, is anywhere close to organism a miracle? Though we dont look at it that way, it genuinely is a miracle in its own right. The whole process of living and breathing, sagacious that the end bequeath eventually come is mind-boggling. People just go about every day as if nothing were happening to them. When in all regards, liveliness is slowly being siphoned from their bodies. With life, there is a around-the-clock cycle that can never be prevented. Donald referee makes this realization of life, and the awaiting destruction, distinct in his poem Men At Forty by use a superb combination of imagery, symbolism and tone. Through his use of imagery, Justice plugs the reader directly into the body of an aging world letting them go s teady the trials of growing old. At rest on a stair landing,/ They have it (5-6) projects an unmistakable picture into the readers mind of an older man taking a rest while climbing a charge of stairs. This, in turn, greatly enhances the focus of the reader letting the poem cut into deep into the psyche and fashion a firm basis in the acceptance of age. Justice also manifests an image of when the man stands and peers deep into a mirror how, They rediscover/ The face of the boy as he practices bind/ His fathers tie there in secret (9-11). passim the poem, Justice paints the picture of aging. But, he also gives reference to where the inevitable events of life will lead. Though Justices use of imagery portrays a vivid picture, his use of symbolism about death strikes the reader even harder. Right from the start Justice grips the reader with a reference to death by saying Learn to close softly/ The doors to rooms they will not be/ Coming back to (2-4). This tells the reader that n o way out what we are all human. As the poem continues, aging is brought out to be the main idea but, in the last two stanzas, Justice at once again shows us that death is coming Something is filling them, something/ That is like the decline sound/ Of the crickets, immense, (16-18).