Blog Post #2

Choosing lines:


Welcome the night. Good sleep


is your body’s mending time. In its sweet release,


the fires of worry and anger will be subdued,


and in dreams you may learn to fly above any blaze


and let your secret self float free


above a new world


you must imagine and learn to embrace


each and every day.






The title of the poem is “Seize The Day”, which means the whole day is valuable, including the day and night. Seizing a day seems like trying to persuade a person to be positive or to manage his day. However, the lines put in the last stanza by the author is the ending. It is interesting that ending a fruitful day, and those lines are really been stood out from the whole poem.










The poem is always having a persuasive attitude because it persuades you to do something such as “ step outside”, “ sit with your thoughts”, or “love your work”. Since the style and the way of expressing the theme and idea to the readers are monotonous, the first sentence of the last stanza - “Welcome the night. Good Sleep” converts the style of the poem in the end which also mentions to the readers that the poem is already finished. In addition, the process of bringing the readers to the atmosphere of the night does a good job. Some word groups are visualizing the scene of sleeping at night. “ Sweet Release”, “Fly above any blaze”, and “ float free” are describing the feeling when people relax when they are gradually falling into the sleep. The last two lines are responded for concluding the poem. “ imagine and learn to embrace” represents the main idea of “ Seize the day”. Even though the stanza is not emphasizing the rhyme, the words he used to depict the process of a person from laying on the bed to the dream enhance the poem because of the metaphor and terms used by here.










I am always looking for the real feeling from poems. Since I like to find the feeling which can be found easily in my life, the depict of released pressure by sleep impresses me. When I feel really tired, the first thing popped out in my mind is sleeping in a comfortable bed. My mind can’t feel the reality of this world and I am on the way to the other world. The last stanza coherently reflects my experience and depicts the clearest painting inside of my head. Comparing to the other stanzas, the last stanza also surprises me that it mentions a part of seizing a day which is enjoying the sleep. The other stanza talks a lot about how to use your time wisely or how to embrace the nature, while the theme of sleep should not be included in it because it is not accorded to others. In the second time that I read this poem, I felt the difference from this stanza and prepared to relate it with the other stanzas to find the relationship.










Finally, I concluded it to be another way to seize a day. About the enjoyment of one’s life, it is also a way of seizing a day. There are two lines of this poem remind me: “Let water heal your body. Think of bathinng as a ritual of new beginnings.” If we transfer to the environment of the last stanza, releasing my body becomes a new beginning of my life to the next day too. There is a line in the last stanza says: “ Let yourself float above a new world.” representing a similar meaning with the other line in the poem which is “ Remember today is a gift.” trying to compare with the word group “New world” so that new world is a gift. The last line “ You must imagine and learn to embrace each and every day” also transmits the style of this poem overall which is persuading you to embrace the day.