Today I read the poem “The Dash” by Linda Ellis. The theme of the poem is to live your life to the best of your abilities because you never know how much time you may have left. You should love and appreciate and care. You shouln't live your life with regrets.
The real life issue that was reflected in poem was that society focuses on all of the wrong things. We care too much about material things and not enough about what actually matters. The quote from the poems states,
"For it matters not, how much we own,
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The real life issue that was reflected in poem was that society focuses on all of the wrong things. We care too much about material things and not enough about what actually matters. The quote from the poems states,
"For it matters not, how much we own,
the cars…the house…the cash.What matters is how we live and loveand how we spend our dash."Linda Ellis believes that you need to live life to the fullest because today could be your last. Make your dash count.
This is one of my favorite poems! I love the idea of "what you do with your dash". It's a great reminder to stop and think about how you want to be remembered one day. People aren't going to remember you for how much money you had or how big your house was, they're going to remember you for how you treated other people and what you did with your time.
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