Tell me how this guy died. Explain this poem to me. This is about Narcissus. Please help me.?

If love hadn't made him clumsy


if he hadn't fallen forward


had never drowned


in his own perfection


What would he have thought


about his aging face


as it altered, year after year


season by season?


In the old conspiracy


between the eye


and it's reflection, love casts


a primal shadow


Perhaps he would blame


the wrinkling surface of the pool


for what he saw


or think the blemishes


On his once smooth


were simply small fish


just beneath the skin


of the water

Tell me how this guy died. Explain this poem to me. This is about Narcissus. Please help me.?
Is this for school? Get the cliff notes or hire a tutor.
Reply:it's about not seeing things as they really are. he blamed his own aging on other outside factors because he couldn't believe they came from himself. its about seeing faults in ourselves and accepting them. obviously vanity
Reply:...........................................


Narcisuss turned into a flower,


flower's seed poop on/at/in Mother Earth,


Mother Earth feed or fetch Narcisuss need and neccesities,


soil,water and oxigen,


Narcisuss re-grown, still as flora,


so the story goes.





Cyclic Redundancy !
Reply:He was so focused on his vanity that he didn't notice himself falling into the reflection on the water. He drowned. He was afraid of aging because then he wouldn't be aesthetically attractive.
Reply:The mythical Narcissus rejected all lovers, then fell in love with his own reflection in a forest pool. One version, and the one in this poem, says that he drowned when he fell in while gazing at his reflection. This poem wonders on what would have happened had Narcissus lived long enough to see himself age in the reflection of the pool. Would he have accepted old age or blamed the water for the imperfections in his face and still see himself as when he fell in love.
Reply:Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, fell in the water and drowned.
Reply:I agree with Shazam, OLD AGE.
Reply:Narcissus fell in love with himself, and the most common image of him is when he's staring into a pool and admiring him reflection. In this case, that's the same as you looking into your boyfriend's eyes.





He grew eventually grew older, but he still saw himself as how he was when he first fell in love with himself(love casts a primal shadow).





Instead, he would blame the wrinkling surface of the pool for his wrinkly appearance because he couldn't stop seeing himself as he used to be.





The poem is saying that Narcissus' skin was the same as the water that had fish swimming beneath its surface since that's what he looked at all the time.
Reply:he fell in love with himself, and couldn't take his eyes off of himslef and well when you can't leave yourself for basic things like eating, drinking stuff like that you're screwed, as a side note Echo was in love with him too but she could only repeat the things that peopel said and so as he died so did she
Reply:Sorry, this is YOUR homework.
Reply:old age





or





dehydration
Reply:He died from staring at his own reflection in the water so much that he drowned trying to get close to it. He is where the term "narcissistic" comes from....to be full of oneself. The most vain character in mythology.
Reply:He died from drowning.





"if he hadn't fallen forward/had never drowned"





Narcissus, from Greek Mythology, was cursed after he scorned a nymph. He fell in love with his image in a pond, seeing it as the ultimate in perfection. He drowns from trying to kiss his image or dies from old age. He then turns into a flower that hangs over the water.





The poem is about how he would deny the picture of his love (himself) was changing because he was blinded by love.
Reply:FYI: Also where we get the name for the daffodil-like flower "Narcissus" aka "paperwhites"
Reply:He fell in love with his reflection and drowned. It's pretty obvious