Robert Service - Your Poem

Your Life

Robert Service put a lot of thought while he was writing "Your Poem"; this poem is a masterpiece in every aspect. Service has many different themes in his poems; he tries to motivate people to keep striving higher in life. A theme for this poem is that people see everything different it just depends the way you look at things. Service is passing the message to the community, the readers.

Robert defines that life is beautiful if you look at it in the right way. Service states, "I'm but a prompter at the best... 'Tis you who make them alive." (Line# 9,12) Humans can do the impossible as long as they have the right mindset. Robert implies that he is only a prompter and that we as a community, as a person can make it happen, people have the opportunity to achieve great things when they dedicate the time and hard work that the goal deserves. Service also stated, "Yours is the beauty that you see in any words I sing;"(17,18) Robert had a good perspective of life, but he wanted for people to realize that everybody's perspective is different and that nobody has the wrong perspective. Everybody has their own life's and their own vision of reality for some its better than others but they all lead to the same place. People good or bad have to make the most of their life no matter the situation their in, they always have to try to make things better. The sentence of the poem that affects people the most is, "The poem is yours."(24) People have tried to explain this many times but all come up with different answers. This sentence take people back to the way they look at things, to a lot of people this sentence means to make your own life don't live as a puppet, be original, and always try to make things better by having the right mindset.

Robert Service had the right mindset in life and always tried to make things better by motivating people to look up and keep going. People have that decision either to follow what Robert is trying to tell them or live like a puppet. The decisions humans make everyday are vital for the future of that person. The most important thing is to always look up and strive for the best of your capacity.

Work Cited

Service, Robert. "Your Poem." The Best of Robert Service. New York: Putman, 1953