Act II Poem Analysis

Opportunity Knocks
by Z Michael D Nalley

Opportunities often knock at our door
Those we have to choose to accept or ignore
It is sometimes a shame we don't unlock
The door even when we hear the knock

Opportunity may be a road full of rocks
Life is a journey filled with hard knocks
One road may be right, the other wrong
One road may be short, the other long

Many times we wish we could turn back the clock
To a time that we heard a good opportunity knock
It has been said time and tide wait for no man
For goodness sake we must come up with a plan

The world is a diverse place of cold reality, and warm romance
Where the merciful Lord often offers more than one chance
The wise will learn from the hard knocks to avoid the dangerous rocks
Time will tell who has fell and got back up when opportunity knocks

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I believe that opportunity has a direct relationship with fate and free will. It is some what the determining factor in way. How one embraces opportunity is from one's free will, how the opportunity presents itself is a question of fate vs. freewill. This poem relates to Act II in both literal and figurative way. For one Brutus is presented with the opportunity to be a part of the murder of Caesar. He is receiving letters from the people, as far as he knows, that tells him to stand up for Rome and make the wrongs right, for he is the noble Brutus. This confirms his feeling that something must be done about Caesar. Then the conspirators show up at his door to have him in their scheme. That is when the opportunity truly presented itself to Brutus, literally at his door.

The whole act of killing Caesar is indeed an opportunity in its self. An opportunity all the conspirators silently agreed to. They are all conscience of what they are doing, but they feel their actions are justified because Caesar is a tyrant who is an unfit ruler for Rome. They all could have backed out, it was not their fate that decided to be a part of the act but their own choice, their free will to seize the opportunity. And they did just that.

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