The River Of Life Poem Analysis

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In life, time ticks by unhindered, stopping for no one. One minute we are children the next we have children of our own, we blink and it’s over. Thomas Campbell’s poem, The River of Life, echoes this fact. The central metaphor found in the poem is that of life being like a river. Describing each stage of life, the poem starts with us in youth, then becoming adults, and finally to old. As a child, life for us is smooth like the beginning of a river. We are without a care in the world, enjoying every second of life. We have no bills, no deadlines, no stress, no obligations other than figuring out what tree we’re going to explore next. Campbell captures the fact that we enjoy every moment so much as a child in the line, “A day to childhood seems

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