32+ Growing Old Poem Pictures. Grow stiffer, every function less exact, each nerve more loosely strung? Strangely enough, most of us live under the illusion that we and our loved ones will never become old.
The market's full of creams and lotions to help us with the very notion. They grew old, a story was told, of laughter, of happiness, and a story of woe, but still, they grew old together, loved, and died. In arnold's poem, growing old, he uses himself to portray the dreadful experience of aging mentally, physically, and emotionally.
These poems challenge, celebrate and give age a voice, as the poets find humour amidst this is a thoughtful book of poems about ageing, from the perspective of people who are growing old as well.
For some reason it began with 9 syllables in each line and so i continued that. A few years ago i would not of been able to relate to this. Somehow the skies don't seem so blue as they used to be; This means the verses have to be a certain amount.