The enumeration of opposite times—birth and death, planting and plucking up—establishes that existence encompasses a full spectrum of human experience, neither purely good nor purely evil. The rhythm of opposites suggests a kind of cosmic justice or balance; what is lost is eventually replenished, what dies is born anew. Yet the inclusion of death in this catalogue of natural times, presented as neither lamentable nor exceptional, recommends a kind of acceptance of mortality as part of the world's inherent order.

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