Analysis Of Prayer Before Birth By Louis Macniece

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We are born, and life engulfs us into itself whether we like it or not, we live day to day wishing things could happen, wishing we could do things, imaging a perfect world in which there was no conflict, we wish children didn’t have to die so young, but soon enough it’ll happen to us; we die, and there isn’t an awful lot that we as humans can do about it. It is simply the cycle of life.
The cycle of human life is one of the Themes in our Modern Life. Prayer before Birth by Louis Macniece starts us off in life. We hope for gifts of consolidation – someone giving us strength to strive with in human nature upon our arrival – forgive us for mistakes, and dandle us with love. We hope.
John Lennon’s Imagine walks us through life with lyrics of peaceful protest, helping us imagine a world unity much less division.
And in the end there is Glencoe, where Douglas Stewart sombrely walks us through death, and explains to us how even the most innocent of souls are killed by natures hand or even each other’s.

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