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Eros

BY ROBERT BRIDGES

Why hast thou nothing in thy face?

Thou idol of the human race,

Thou tyrant of the human heart,

The flower of lovely youth that art;

Yea, and that standest in thy youth

An image of eternal Truth,

With thy exuberant flesh so fair,

That only Pheidias might compare,

Ere from his chaste marmoreal form

Time had decayed the colours warm;

Like to his gods in thy proud dress,

Thy starry sheen of nakedness.

Surely thy body is thy mind,

For in thy face is nought to find,

Only thy soft unchristen’d smile,

That shadows neither love nor guile,

But shameless will and power immense,

In secret sensuous innocence.

O king of joy, what is thy thought?

I dream thou knowest it is nought,

And wouldst in darkness come, but thou

Makest the light where’er thou go.

Ah yet no victim of thy grace,

None who e’er long’d for thy embrace,

Hath cared to look upon thy face.

Social issues is actually tell us about how our ability to make other people trust to us. It is very difficult because in the social we will find different characters of each person. We will also make our attitude right in front of other people. When our attitude changed just a little, other people will comment about that. So, social issue is really complicated when face to other people or in social or public.

First stanza tells social issue, the real character in here is a king. The king in here is a king that began to weaken.  he will be conceived not like a manly king, he is idolized a people who is beneath than he is, it is from the quotation here “Thou idol of the human race”. The weakness of the king shown by the differences between his young and his condition now. In his past, he is a manly, commanding, and also wise king. Now, he has not wisdom, authority, and charm. From the quotation here “Yea, and that stands in thy youth”, no one knows why he change become a weak king. Probably, just a time that makes the changing of the king.  Second stanza also tells about the king that suddenly becomes weak king. It tells about the changing attitude of the king, mind of the king, care of the king, and other things that change by the king. It is show that the king now does not have ability to make the follower follow him. He does not have a power again. Third stanza tells about the follower need the king like in the past. They miss the last king. They want to make the king back like in the past. But, many problems will appear when they make the king back again. Many difficulties to make the king come back again. Finally they accept what the king now.

To sum up, that poem really tells about social issue that will give us benefit. From that poem we know how to make our attitude not to be changed. So, other people will stay with us. It is also make us not changing our attitude, mind and other without any reasons.