Question

PLEASE HELP WITH ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT!!!!

What do you think the effects of the arrow and the song, as revealed in the final stanza of the poem, are meant to suggest about human actions and their consequences?

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.


I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song?


Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

Answer 1

if you act without thinking, there will be consequences but there may also be great reward.