Fairness and
justice are two values that their main idea is on doing the right thing. On the
first poem, “A Psalm of Life”, these values are not exactly mentioned but there
messages are there, on the first stanza the autor is saying things such as “life
is an empty dream” and “things are not what they seem”. These stanza makes the
reader think like life is not what we thought it was and that it is unfair but
then this poems start to suggest that despite life is not what it seems and
that life is unfair we should be “heroes in the strife” and keep achieving and
pursuing to reach our destiny. On the
second poem, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, justice and fairness are both
implied to this poem but justice is implied as a synonym of fairness but on the
exact meaning of justice is not because justice is about treating everybody based
on their merits or on how good or bad they have been and the message of this
poem is about everybody is treat equally in the cycle of life. The cycle of
life is not looking for bad people or good people is just following the path of
every living thing. I said this message is fair because it is equal for
everyone without discriminate anyone.
My opinión is
that justice and fairness are very important values and the way these values
are implied to the story are like in an abstract way for example in “A Psalm of
Life” these values are not in there but we can infer that these values are in
there and in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, the author suggest these values
as a metaphor like when he says “the tide rises, the tide falls” we can infer
there he is talking about a cycle that no matter what happens it continues, the
tide rises we can say he is talking about life, someone being born and growing
up, and a tide falls means when someone is getting old and start to get shorter
until the tide finally falls that we can say it is when someone dies. These two
values are not the main points on this poems but they are slightly implicated
in the message that the author wants us to infer so this is why I think that
these values are implied on these poems.
