"Psalm of Life" & "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"

“Psalm of Life” and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” are two works of poetry, written by the same autor, that handle very artistic and morally righteous topics in their contents. Even so, the two values of “justice” and “fairness” are not always shown in an explicit way in these two poems, but often require a little bit more digging to discover the meaning or relation of the stanzas to be able to compare or show the presence of these values .

Starting with “A Psalm of Life”, we can see that the autor dedicates a lot of stanzas to the meaning of life and its fleeting nature, to being a better person than the one we were yesterday, to live as such that our lives become an example and an encouragement to other people when we die, and other stuff, so perhaps it can almost seems like “fairness” and “justice” are not the most adecuate values to show that are present on this poem, but it actually mentions how we should strive to be like heroes in the war of life,  and one of the characteristics that many great heroes posses  is how they are always seeking justice for the people and treat everyone with fairness.

Next, we have “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, in which the author shows that the movement of the tides actually represents the cylces of nature, and how us humans are only a small part of it, and even if we come and go, life continues, and so does nature, with or without us. And the way you could picture this story with the “fariness” and “justice” lens, is that maybe the fact that we are just travelers on this “beach”, and our “footprints” on this Earth can get erased  is not something “fair” to us, because after all, its Life we’re talking about, but this should never stop us from trying to leave something good in this world, just ike our first poem (“A Psalm of Life”) mentioned previously.

In my opinion, it takes a bit of thought and effort to be able to see those two values regarding both of the poems, but both of them talk about very broad topics such as life and humans, and the values of Fairness and Justice are undoubtedly two values that hold a lot of importance in life and the way we live it.