Life is beautiful. Getting the chance to explore anything you want. But it also has an expiration date. Nobody lives forever. But one can fill their limited lifetime with everlasting memories. One should not have any regrets when they expire. There should be no "shoulda, coulda, wouldas." The goal in life is to make goals, accomplish them, then make more goals to accomplish later. Feelings and thoughts can be expressed through literature, metaphors, and poems. Literature is a great way to express ones deepest thoughts in an indirect way. "A Coney Island Life" by James L. Weil portrays that one shall live in the present not knowing what awaits them in the future.
Nobody can do every little thing that they want to do in their life. All one can do is live every second getting closer and closer to achieving those goals. "And soon my helium hopes break skyward without me." This person didn't get to do everything they wanted to in life. Their goals that were not completed are going up with them as they go out of the world. Don't be this person. Be a better person. A better person with more goals accomplished in their lifetime. "I take perhaps my last ride on this planet carousel." The last chance one will get to complete all of their goals in life. The tiny amount of time in life. One can live this time out to the fullest or reminisce about what goals were not achieved. Do not live in the past, but live in the present. Reminiscing is for later life.
Everybody has that small fear of not knowing when you will perish. So the fact that one does not know when their time will come should make one obligated to live life to the fullest in the present. "And I ask how many more times round I have." Should time be used by thinking or doing. One can think about how long they might have, or they can do anything they set their mind to. Any goal can be achieved through hard work. And hard work can only be done by living in the present. Do not think about the future either. Think about now. "To catch that brass-ring-sun before the game is up." This is what life is all about. Getting to achieve that last goal before time runs out. Life is a game. If one just thinks and doesn't do, time will run out, but in real life there are no extra lives. Use the one life one has to make the best out of everything.
James L. Weil used metaphors to explain how life is like Coney Island. It is really fun, but in the back of your mind, you know that the fun has to end sometime. With this poem he is trying to encourage everyone to live in the present not knowing what awaits them in the future. Don't let any unfulfilled dreams follow you out of your life. Finish the dreams before there is no tome left.
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