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Hi, can anyone help in this poem to explain ideas and themes ? - Andy - 02-20-2014 10:54 AM
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths
by Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.
- Michael - 02-20-2014 11:02 AM
I believe it's expressing the ideal that humans are remembered by their actions. What they've contributed, what they've invented, what they left as their mark on Earth. I think it's just telling us that we shouldn't waste our lives away and stress about mindless things, like the amount of "likes" a picture on Instagram has, or anything of that sort.