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Simona Timis · Plunger Data inscrierii: 27/Mai/2011 Mesaje: 39

He is unsatisfied with his life. He wanted to became a writer, but life take him in another direction.He is sad because nobody will remember him.
We have to do something memorable with our lives!

It is an autobiography, a life story (unusual to poetry).

Adyna · Plunger Data inscrierii: 10/Dec/2009 Mesaje: 28

I think that the best words that can describe this poem are these:

Titiana Tomoiaga · Dunker Data inscrierii: 12/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 17

it is interesting the way is presented this poem: long sentences, no rhyme, it seems more like a summary of ones' life, a page of diary. the only thing that actually sends to the idea of poem is the tone of the text, a nostalgic one full of regrets and of feeling.

Ticala Ioana · Diver Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 56

Reexamination
This poem speaks about a dream,the dream of a man who wanted to become a poet.He is making plans how to write his novel and finally he feels lucky when he starts to write his first line of the novel,this thing made him to feel wonderful.

Sergiu Mihis · Dunker Data inscrierii: 11/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 12

The presentation of this poem is interesting, the way the author describes the events of his life in a simple way.What he's trying to say is that life goes on and if you leave something behind you will realize something, because his name is associated with his legacy.

Razvan517 · Trimis: 26/02/2012 09:48 Titlul subiectului:

The poem's title is a name, a name suggestive of the person who talks about his life in this poem. I see this poem more like a story, a story that was cut so that it would seems as a poem. Everybody wants, once they pass away, to leave something behind and be remembered. This is a person whose name wants to be remembered by the writings he does.
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Persida-Mara

The text has the shape of a poem but the content is from a diary, in poems usually we have actions that are only supposed but here we have actions:
"won the prize", "published a novel"...this it is very interesting.I found in the poem even some kind of monologue in the last lines:<How great it is to write the single line:�Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!�>, this poem is under my expectation: a lot of action like the character describe his life, his thoughts but the shape is a poem, it is described the life of John Horace Burleson, it is an autentic way to write a poem, and the vocabulary is easy it's for all the readers.

romanadriana · Trimis: 12/05/2012 20:16 Titlul subiectului: JHON HORACE BURLESON

The protagonist of this poem seems to be an American man,he used a simple lanuage,the poem has a shade of biography. It looks like a page from a diary, this man is unhappy with his social condition,his wish being to write.He believes that becoming a writer is the only way in which people do not forget about you.
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anastasia · Plunger Data inscrierii: 17/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 27

I think this is a very philosophical and deep poem. It is about human condition on the earth! It is not a biographical poem, it is a bioghraphy of entire world. We all have a dream, we follow it, but there is a moment when we just forget about our vocation and "And later (we) became president of the bank". It is interesting that we all know that life is short, we "Always looking forward to some leisure" and never cad find it.
Blessed is that person who finds time to write the last line and live something behind to keep his name alive.

Florina Grad · Dunker Data inscrierii: 10/Feb/2010 Mesaje: 20

This poem is like a diary. Is presented a life of a person which is not content about all what he did in his life. He enumerate many things that he did, but finally is sad because he would have wanted to do more than that. Even that he published a novel before he was twenty-five, he searched "to some leisure to write an epic novel of the war". Like him, we all I think have many and many dreams for which have not time but then realize that what we have done until then was not so important to stay behind us. All what our protagonist has done, wherever he has gone, was not enough to keep his name alive. that's why he tells about "how great it is to write the single line: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!" So, concluding, is not so important what you do, what you speak, how you behave, where are you going, if you don't leave something behind you. I have some quotations:

"If you have success, you can leave a material legacy for those who come after you. But, if you want to leave them a spiritual legacy, then you must leave something to those who come after you. When you think disinterested and invest in others, you have chance to leave a spiritual legacy that will last longer than you." -John Maxwell, Thinking for a Change (Warner Books, 2002)

"Do not waste the life in doubts and fears; get involved in the work that stand before you, making sure that the correct fulfillment of present responsibilities is the best preparation for the hours and ages that will come." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist, and American philosopher, sec. XIX.