Life — July 23, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Issue 80 This page contains two distinct sections: a poem titled "The Four-Leaved Clover" and a "Letters" section offering advice to readers. The cartoon at the bottom depicts cookware (pots and pans) with the caption "WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF"—a Shakespeare quote from *The Tempest*. The visual joke appears to be a pun: treating mundane kitchen items as if they were subjects worthy of philosophical contemplation, mocking the pretentiousness of applying high literary language to everyday domestic objects. This satirizes both overwrought sentimentality and the gap between elevated rhetoric and humble reality—typical of Life magazine's gentle satirical approach to American society and culture.