Who Am I?
Who Am I? - meaning Summary
Claiming a Universal Identity
The poem gives a single speaker who claims expansive, paradoxical experience: celestial reach and terrestrial contact, play with fate, descent into suffering, and communion with the divine. The voice balances brutality and beauty, rebellion and tenderness, and finally identifies itself as Truth—present yet hard to hold. It portrays identity as a restless, searching force that inhabits extremes while resisting containment.
Read Complete AnalysesMy head knocks against the stars. My feet are on the hilltops. My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life. Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny. I have been to hell and back many times. I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God. I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible. I know the passionate seizure of beauty And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off." My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
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