I Could Not Prove the Years Had Feet
poem 563
I Could Not Prove the Years Had Feet - meaning Summary
Growing Beyond Past Selves
The poem reflects on personal change and the sense that one has outgrown former aims and identities. The speaker acknowledges past competence but recognizes new ambitions and demands that make earlier goals seem small or ill-fitting. Time is imagined as movement the speaker feels but cannot prove; the central experience is quiet acceptance that the self evolves and requires new directions and larger claims than before.
Read Complete AnalysesI could not prove the Years had feet Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done I find my feet have further Goals I smile upon the Aims That felt so ample Yesterday Today’s have vaster claims I do not doubt the self I was Was competent to me But something awkward in the fit Proves that outgrown I see
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