Fate Factor
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You choose your fate
By the things you do
If you are good
Your fate will be too
Fate does not choose you
It won’t take time to choose you
Just watch what you do
And fate will be good to you
A fate worse than death
For being bad that’s what you get
I’ve been there and back
So I know the facts
Take my advice
Live life right
Just do onto others good
And fate will do onto you
Follow one of the golden rules
Do onto others what you,
Want them to do onto you
And that’s how you choose your fate
LaTisha Parkinson
The Cloud of Fate
by: Bacchylides (5th century B.C.)
translated by John Herman Merivale
Peaceful wealth, or painful toil,
Chance of war, or civil broil,
'Tis not for man's feeble race
These to shun, or those embrace.
But that all-disposing Fate
Which presides o'er mortal state,
Where it listeth, casts its shroud
Of impenetrable cloud.
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[comment on first fate poem] According to my belief in what fate means (your life is set in stone, and therefor can't be changed) this poem is conveying more of how you should live your live. "Just do onto others good / And fate will do onto you" for instance is a very influential line, but I do not find it appropriate for the term fate. While I don't believe in fate because people make their own decisions, I would replace the words "fate" with "life" and this poem would be something great to live by. example: "You choose your LIFE/ By the things you do / If you are good / Your LIFE will be too"
ReplyDeleteComment on the first poem: Although Cristina makes a great point, I sort of agree with the poet here...a little. IN this poem it states that you choose your fate but I think your fate is already chosen for you, you just decide if you want to follow the path to it. Let me clarify, I believe that we all have a PLANNED fate. If you were born with a talent to sing then your fate might just be to become a famous singer or something of that sort, however, you’re the one who has to make the right decisions in walking toward your fate. If you decide to forget about singing and never practice, you’re going to lose that talent and you aren’t going to become what you were destined to become. I agree with the poet in the sense that you choose what you do, whether it be good or bad, but if you do things that are "good" isn't going choose your fate, if you do the "right" things pertaining to your fate, that will bring you closer to your fate...
ReplyDeleteI believe that the first poem is about living your life. It presents the idea of karma. What goes areound comes around so, If you are treat others right, your faith will treat you right.
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