شرح قصيدة Sir walter what is our life

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Sir walter

What is our life?
WHAT is our life? A play of passion,
Our mirth the music of division,
Our mother's wombs the tiring-houses be,
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.
Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is,
That sits and marks still who doth act amiss.
Our graves that hide us from the setting sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only we die in earnest, that's no jest.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552(?)–1618)
All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They

have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many

parts. A well known quote from his contemporary William Shakespeare, Sir

Walter Raleigh explores the same idea about human mortality and

transience, and the insignificance of worldly achievement. It was on

October 29th 1618 that Sir Walter Raleigh was put to death by King James

I. A rakish and shady character he left a legacy of great literature and

this particular work was composed while he was confined to the Tower of

London about five years before his execution and where he wrote his

History of the World, for which he is best remembered.

He was a favorite of the court of Queen Elizabeth I and whether he placed

his cloak in the mud for her or not, it seems fairly certain that his

personal charm had much to do with their friendship. He spent much of his

time in court with her and became a much disliked man because of the

attention that he received. It was Raleigh who conceived and organized the

colonizing expeditions to America that ended tragically with the "lost

colony" expeditions on Roanoke Island, N.C. As an adventurer, admiral,

historian and poet his greatest rival was the Earl of Essex an

accomplished soldier and sonneteer and a threat to Raleigh's position at

Court. To be sure I can't do adequate justice to his life but one thing of

note about his works and one you may be acquainted with is Raleigh's

famous reply to Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd, the best of

many such responses is his The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

It is with unclouded irony that Sir Raleigh answers his question about

life considering the adventurousness and sometimes absurd way he lived.

After a brave, brutal and romantic life he met his death fourteen years

after he was convicted for his part in the Cobham Treason against King

James I; here he points out clearly and with exactness where the jest

ends.

Sir Walter Raleigh " What is our life "

In this short poem, the poet uses a very nice and extended Metaphor
by comparing life to a short comedy. He considers "our mothers' wombs"
as the houses in which we are dressed for the short comedy. He also
considers our joy as the "music of division". The "judicious" heaven is
carefully watching us and "marks who doth a mistake". Our graves are
compared to the curtains of the theatre. Just like the curtains which
separate the actors from the audience marking the end of the play,our
graves hide us from the "searching sun" indicating the end of life and
the coming of death which is real and serious

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