Original artwork, not a still
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Emerson compares dreading death to dreading a short summer. Once we've had our fun, our fruit and our heat, we call it a day. Like a butterfly's brief flutter, a short life can feel complete and worth having lived, not cheated.
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