Poetry

What is life? A frenzy,
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction.
And the greatest good
is of slight worth,
since life is but a dream,
and dreams are only dreams.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

i like this poem... it's part of a play where a poor dude was tricked by a king. The king orders everyone to act along as if the poor dude was always a king. The poor dude thinks he's dreaming even though it seems real...Then when the poor dude falls asleep and wakes up, hes back to being poor again.. and he's thinking that it was a dream and felt that he lost reality twice. He doesn't even know if he is still in a dream. The poem explores the perspectives or the poor dude from when he was a pretend king and when he was poor. Rich or poor, the dude experienced disadvantages. Both sides have advantages and disadvantages and obviously everyone would always not want the disadvantages in life. The poor dude realised this...everybody would always feel up and down no matter what or where they get...Life is just full of dreams which are a combination of wants and fantasies and thats what the reality of life really is. Darn...i'm gettin really philosophical.