Question

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (Laugh and Be Merry/John Masefield/Public Domain) Which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Answer 1

The main idea behind it is that life is short and that we need to laugh and be happy while we have time and not focus on negative things because life is short. If life hits you in the teeth there's no reason to be depressed forever about it, just laugh and be happy and keep moving on.