*  What is the central idea of the Poem The Builders?
The poem The Builders was written by H.W.Longfellow. He was a great American poet, educator, linguist, and traveller. He is the first American poet who didn't follow the style of the British poets. The present poem is a simple metaphor where human life is compared to a building and we the human beings are builders.
       The poem is about how we make every day and how we create our own future. The theme of the poem is that each day is a block we lay down to build characteristics of our life. Our life is based on the blocks we choose. We should watch what we do as it affects our later lives. The poet says that it requires time, hard-work, perseverance, commitment, honesty and integrity to build a good and strong character. Time is the most important thing to build our life carefully. The poet says that with all the hard work if we can build a tall building, it's from that higher perspective, we can see "the world as one vast plain."
Finally we need to build our life by ourselves with high values and then only we will be able to reach greater heights to the boundless sky.
"All are architects of Fate, working in the walls of time to build our life"

Annotations

1. All are architects of fate,
   Working in these walls of time.
Introduction: These lines are taken from The Poem "The Builders, written by Henry Wardsworth Longfellow. In this poem the poet compares human beings to builders.
Context: The poet describes each day of our life as a building block. The structure they build is their life.
Explanation: The poet says that we are the builders of our own fate. We are the architects of our fate. The time is the most important thing to build our life carefully.
General Relevance: The poet says that should be careful in spending our time on good things. We should use our time fruitfully to make our life more meaningful in the future.

2. Time is with materials filled
    Our todays and yesterdays
    Are the blocks with which we build.
Introduction: These lines are taken from the poem "The Builders" written by H W Longfellow. In this poem he compares human beings to builders.
Context: The poet describes the importance of hard work, commitment and integrity to build a good and strong character. The poet advises to make each day meaningful, by describing each day a building block.
Explanation: The poet uses metaphor to say that Time is with materials filled. Each and every minute ,we spend becomes the part of the building.
General Relevance: The poet says that we should be careful in spending our time on good things. We should use our time fruitfully to make our life more meaningful in the future.

3. Let us do our work as well
   Both the unseen and the seen.
Introduction: These lines are taken from the poem The Builders, written by H W Longfellow, an American poet. In this poem the poet compares human beings to builders.
Context: The poet says that we should work hard to make the house beautiful either inside or outside. We should have dedication and commitment to construct a quality house.
Explanation: The poet advises that we need to have core values which helps to build a good house.Values like honesty, integrity, perseverance, commitment, hard-work and punctuality help us to build a very good life. We need to be careful in using our values on good things.
General Relevance: The poet says that we should be careful in spending our time on good things. It's because whatever bad we do now affects our life later.

4. Thus alone can we attain
    To those turrets, where
    the eye
    Sees the world as one
    vast plain.
Introduction: These lines are taken from the poem The Builders, written by H W Longfellow, an American poet. In this poem he compares human beings to builders.
Context: In the last stanza the poet explains that we should have values to build our life. We can reach the highest point in our life winning through all hurdles.
Explanation: The poet says that with all hard work if we build a tall house , it's from there we can see the worth of our life around. It's from that perspective that we can see The world as one vast plain
General Relevance: The poet says that we should have high values to build a good life. So we should use our time fruitfully to make our life more meaningful in the future.

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