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The first 3 stanzas excluding the last line on the third stanza; the chorus�s is impressed by man�s achievements. They are impressed because man has accomplished what no other inhabitants have done before; they have risen up to become the leader of Earth and all other creature that inhabit the earth bow down to mane because they are superior than all the rest. The chorus�s indirectly mentions that man has been able to tame the wild and ferocious animals such as a lion and horses that usually run free. In the future man has still continued to prove themselves to be the most dominant species of creature by creating and inventing new technology that makes live much easier. Man has created transportation, variety of clothes to adapt to certain environment, the alphabet, time and much more cool stuff that makes life easy sailing. Everything we have touched, according to the ode, has magically somehow turned gold because our precious hands has touched the filthy grounds of earth and with our power, wealth, and superiority we have changed it from filth to something unremarkable and it will never be the same again. This is just like when humans have touched nobility like getting an autograph from famous people, man cherishes these signature of power. Man has been achieving what no other creature has done in this world before. |
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The second tone is found in the rest of the ode, from the last line of the 3rd stanza and all of the last stanza. This time the chorus�s feels frightened from man�s limitations. Although man may seem godly and superior they also have limits to what they can and cannot do. One flaw in man that is found is, at one point another man will die no matter what. Man is destined to die, whether he dies in peace or in a battle, or accident, or any other possible way that cause death. Man cannot do anything in their hands to stop this negative destiny in live. If man has discovered how to stop death, then by now the earth probably would be overpopulated with citizens that are over 150 years old or maybe more, but of course mortality is inventible. There are many other limitations that man cannot do, but the chorus is mainly fearful of death of man, it is like loosing something that is so precious that no price tag can be put on it. The last stanza of the ode deals with the chorus�s uncertainty because questions of doubtfulness arise. The chorus begins to question what will happen when man begins to lose their touch, and the answer is man will begin to crumble and die down causing valuable knowledge to disappear over time and without a leader this world will become torn apart. The chorus is frightened of man�s death because without man, this world will never be able to flourish the way it did. |
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