Contrary to the discussion, I read the first couplet as a consideration of death, and that, especially of the pursuit of "fame", the courtier's coin. Oh! but it is the second couplet and particularly the first line with the transiency of name, the constant flow that so marks the courtiers' world and also our own court of social media.
Contrary to the discussion, I read the first couplet as a consideration of death, and that, especially of the pursuit of "fame", the courtier's coin. Oh! but it is the second couplet and particularly the first line with the transiency of name, the constant flow that so marks the courtiers' world and also our own court of social media.
Read this visiting a very elderly old neighbour in a home - he’s losing the will to go on - so poignant.