Air Castles
By Juan F. Salazar
My life’s tomorrow beckons me
From distant mountains high and low;
My future seems a boundless sea,
Where moving passions come and go.
Deep in my heart ambition dwells;
He cheers me up the highland,
And guides me through the hills and dells
Where I pass the busy day.
I cannot write with Shakespeare’s pen,
But I can love with Shakespeare’s heart;
I love his skill his craft of men,
His mastery of poet’s art.
I do not care for fame, as he,
Enthroned was like unto a god:
The depths he reached are dark to me.
But I will grope the ways he tried.
I wear achievement’s coronet.
For best are they who see things done!
And all my cares I soon forget
When I have wrought my work alone.
If I be met by adverse fate,
And all my dreams but in vain;
Then, must I work the harder yet
With high resolve to try again.
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Note:
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By Juan F. Salazar
My life’s tomorrow beckons me
From distant mountains high and low;
My future seems a boundless sea,
Where moving passions come and go.
Deep in my heart ambition dwells;
He cheers me up the highland,
And guides me through the hills and dells
Where I pass the busy day.
I cannot write with Shakespeare’s pen,
But I can love with Shakespeare’s heart;
I love his skill his craft of men,
His mastery of poet’s art.
I do not care for fame, as he,
Enthroned was like unto a god:
The depths he reached are dark to me.
But I will grope the ways he tried.
I wear achievement’s coronet.
For best are they who see things done!
And all my cares I soon forget
When I have wrought my work alone.
If I be met by adverse fate,
And all my dreams but in vain;
Then, must I work the harder yet
With high resolve to try again.
What other images are created in your mind as you read "Air Castles"?
What concepts or ideas do you associater with these images?
How do these help you understand the poem better?
Explain by citing examples from the poem.
Note:
Paki sagot po ng ayos, need ko na yan today
Please wag po kayo mag habol sa pooints:)
Answers & Comments
Answer:
i i wrong correct me pls
Explanation:
Juan Francisco Salazar (Juan F. Salazar) is a Chilean anthropologist and a video maker. He is a senior lecturer in communication and media studies at the school of Communication Arts at the Center for Cultural Research. He is also a PhD in Communication and Media and a Master of Arts and Media and Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney.
“Air Castle” is a poem that wrote by Mr. Juan F. Salazar. An inspiring poem that everyone can reflect on their own selves. A poem that really hard to understand on the first sight but it connects to reality of life. A great poem that one can led as a inspiration. One thing that we would appreciate and love.
The Poem want to make people realize that ambition is not easy to achieve you can always experience rejection; rejection is not always be the reason to quit it must be always the inspiration to continue and trying again your ambition in life until you achieve it.
The poem itself has been regarded by some to speak to man’s relationship with God. With lines such as: “Enthroned was he, like unto a God/ the depth he reached is dark to me”… In the last stanza of the poem, the speaker points out the reality behind the saying “try and try until you succeed”. A person should not give up on something because if he/she does, he/she will never achieve what he/she wants…
There is a question I hear and it somehow connects to the poem:”Do you think it is really important to aim for something?” For me, when you aim something you can earn a respect from others but the important thing when you achieve that you can learn not easily giving up on something…Air Castle is all about your ambitions in life, the things or you want to be you want to have in the future. Having ambition in life is not committing a mistake in life; it can be a mistake when you plan aim it in a wrong way… Ambition must always use by motivating you to make things successful… Ambition is always your guide in to fulfill what you want to be or to have… The poem gives a motivation to me to pursue my ambition without hesitation and negative thoughts in my mind that can let me think that I can’t achieve it… not only in having an ambition and achieving it but also loving what you are doing, because loving what you are doing is one of the key to achieve your ambition and making it in reality.