Sunrises and sunsets are hope for today, for now, for tomorrow

Sunrises and sunsets are hope for today, for now, for tomorrow. They are a promise of what is to come. It is accompanied by various emotions or thoughts. Most of us admire them as a visual phenomenon, but they are much more important.

Each sunrise brings a new day, opportunities to come and time that we can use to accomplish what we want or have to do. With sunset, the day comes to an end, but so does hope for a good tomorrow, or no hope.

Sunrises and sunsets are a unique, albeit everyday, phenomenon. Their time and place change. It happens at different times in every land in the world. Time and place depend on the seasons, parallels and meridians. The horizon connects them. As the sun rises, it emerges above it, and as it sets, it hides and is below it. It is said that it rises in the east and sets in the west. However, this is the case only twice a year, on March 21 and September 23 to be exact. Outside of these days, the sunrise and sunset locations are shifted.

We can also find the symbolism of sunrises and sunsets in literature. An excellent example are the references to them in Adam Mickiewicz's "Pan Tadeusz".

"The sun rises too, it is blood red,

With a dull edge as if stripped of rays,

Half light, half in the blackness of the clouds, it hides,

Like a horseshoe glowing in the blacksmith's coals. "

Adam Mickiewicz "Pan Tadeusz"