Carpe Diem Comments

My second favourite poem after The Road Not Taken, also by Frost

Does anybody know, in which book I would find these beautiful words?

'Be happy, happy, happy, And seize the day of pleasure.' ......... From being overflooded With happiness should have it............present and future and the happiness making goal everything is flow of current time.....so seize the present as the real life...........thoughtful......10+

The presentIs too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing- Too present to imagine. Worth remembering

overloaded present......

The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing- Too present to imagine.

Lucid. We abhor clear minds in poetry. That is my quarrel with Frost. A man like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, W.B. Yeats, Rimbaud or Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca or T.S. Eliot are inhabitants of that dreamlike state that is true poetry, even epic poems like Lusiadas or about Odysseus...Who am I to pretend to feel something about him? only a soul with an opinion. Given and not withdrawn.

Too present to imagine.....True!

Wonderful and thought-provoking as Frost's poems usually are...

TRASHHHHH BROOOO just absolutely terrible like honestly my son writes better than this

The meaning of carpe diem as used by Horace is not to ignore the future, but rather not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you and taking action for the future today. The same In Frost's poem...

« Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. » Horace, Odes 1.11 ''Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.''

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

I think Frost is reconciled to the fact that people don't know how to live in the present. He accepts that's just the way it is. He is commenting on the futility of advising us to 'carpe diem'. The leopard cannot change its spots. That is what I think he is saying, I'm not sure he is correct.

The message of this poem is not happiness. It is from the point of view of an old sad man, who wishes the young could realize that they are happy now, but knows they instead are looking to their future, missing their present lives. It is a sad poem. One filled with regret, and desire to relive the past, knowing that it is never to return. Much of Frost's poetry seems happy at first glance, but yet only a little below the surface is regret, loneliness, and sadness. I love it.

wow..awesome message..be happy, happy, happy and seize the day of pleasure..fabulous! .. :)