Comments on louis macneice 's perspectives on posterity

Throughout the poem "The Sunlight On the Garden", the speaker (for the most part) starts stanzas with a picture of a beautiful memory. However, these memories are ruined by the present, when it all comes to an end. For example, in stanza 3, the speaker gives the reader a rush of exhilaration, with the feeling of soaring and defiance. At the end of the stanza though, the narrator talks about how we are all dying. Freedom, like all good, cannot stay forever; it all comes crashing down at one point or another. At the end of the poem, the narrator says how they were grateful for sunlight on the garden. Sunlight, too, always ends up leaving, for either night or thunderstorms, or something of the sort. As shown a couple of times in the poem, nothing good ever stays forever.