Lucinda Matlock Essay

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Lucinda Matlock: Understanding Life
When dealing with the subject matter of understanding life, the negativity and joyfulness tend to bring out the curiosity state of mind. However " Lucinda Matlock" gives a perspective of the purpose of life to accept and understand the negativity and positivity of life. This poem can make the audience realize what life is really about because some people don't like to accept the negativity in life. It can inspire the audience to balance their life in their own way with both positivity and negativity to make life enriched and worthwhile.
In the poem "Lucinda Matlock", the theme is loving life and living it to the fullest. Lucinda had experienced many hardships such as losing and burying her 8 children out of 12. Even though that occurred there were days she felt down, but she was content with her life and lived it how she wanted. …show more content…

By the age of sixty, Lucinda's life consisted of typical housewife duties "I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,/ I made the garden." Even in the midst of these seemingly dull tasks, she enjoyed herself, "shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys." Following her death at age 96, Lucinda looks on at the younger generations. In Lucinda's eyes, the youth need to fully realize the incredible beauty of life. Life is too baffling to them because "it takes life to love Life."Lucinda maintains an optimistic tone about life throughout the poem's

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