Can someone explain what this poem means?

Question:can someone please explain what this poem means? i have read this poem many times and still don't get it. I need to know what it means because i have to write an analysis on this poem due on monday.

here is the poem.. it is written by Lord Alfred Tennyson and it is called "CIRCUMSTANCE"

Two children in two neighbor villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall:
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower,
Wash’d with still rains and daisy-blossomed;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred:
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: can someone please explain what this poem means? i have read this poem many times and still don't get it. I need to know what it means because i have to write an analysis on this poem due on monday.

here is the poem.. it is written by Lord Alfred Tennyson and it is called "CIRCUMSTANCE"

Two children in two neighbor villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall:
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower,
Wash’d with still rains and daisy-blossomed;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred:
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

This is a story of a family... a couple
a life of circumstance...a time line (without the time) sequencing...
Follow the story line to line ...
two children playing ... in neighbouring towns
strangers to each other...
they grow and meet at a festival ...they fall in love
marry... live their lives... die... they are buried beside a church... their children and/or grandchildren are born and are raised together
in the same town .
It is a story of life's unions and the circumstances that surround it .

It's an allegorical presentation of how all our lives are connected. He is attempting to show that no matter how far apart or close together two lives may be, and whether we are cognizantly aware of it or not, our existence constantly influences that of everyone and everything else. Good luck and God Bless.

I would venture to guess that he is talking about two kids who lived in neighboring towns, met at a festival, fell in love, got married (bound fast in one with golden ease), died, and were buried side by side. Two children in one hamlet are their kids who survive them.

What Poet G and the other guy said, but also explaining about the circle of life all the same.

in general most people tend to think of life as occuring in twos

It is saying that life is the same everywhere, always was and always will be. We live, love, procreate and die. The cycle goes on and on and on.