"Count That Day Lost"

Bridging 

The poem "Count That Day Lost"  was written by 'George Eliot', which is a pen name for the female poet Mary Ann Evans. The poem describes the dependence of the consideration of a good and a bad day on your actions on that day. In other words, the poet says that a "well spent day" is a day in which you've done at least one positive deed without expecting any credit or cost. However, a "lost" day is a day in which you haven't .done anything helpful for another person

The poet, Mary Ann Evans, was a female writer in the Victorian England of 1819. At that
 period, the gaps between the classes were huge and women weren't taken seriously as writers. Despite the period's norms, Evans and other leading writers wanted to make a difference in the society and used their writing ability to do it. Mary Ann's books and poems often criticized the behavior of the upper classes towards the ordinary poor people, and pointed out a lot of injustice and discriminations between the classes.

In my point of view, the information that was added to the poem helped me understand it better because learning at what age and in which circumstances the poem was written really adds information about the poet's intentions when she wrote the poem. In addition,  the extra information clarifies that the poet thought that some things were done wrong , and , therefore, wanted to change them. Namely, the poet thought that the

existence of the classes in her period was wrong and was concerned about the moral responsibility that people should take in their lives.

To conclude, the message of the poem "Count That Day Lost" is an advice, which was given by the poet to the people at her time - to do at least one self denying deed a day in order to consider that day a helpful day. Furthermore, the information that was added
about the poet's life helped me understand the poem thanks to the description of the       poet's age and the people's behaviour in it.

Excellent work. Well done
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Daphna.