It Was Just a Little While Ago
It Was Just a Little While Ago - meaning Summary
Solitude at Dawn
The poem records a sparse, early-morning scene in which small domestic details — blackbirds on a wire, a forgotten sandwich, mismatched shoes — frame the speaker’s quiet solitude. The ordinary objects become evidence of neglect and drift. Rather than drama, the mood is resigned observation, culminating in the blunt verdict that some lives are "made to be wasted," a concise meditation on inertia and wasted potential.
Read Complete AnalysesAlmost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday's forgotten sandwich at 6 a.m. An a quiet Sunday morning. One shoe in the corner standing upright the other laying on it's side. Yes, some lives were made to be wasted.
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