When Did It Happen?
memory
haunting
When Did It Happen? - meaning Summary
Memory Lives in the Heart
The poem presents memory as an inner place rather than a fixed event on a map or timeline. Its speaker asks simple questions about something long past and far away, but the answers gradually locate it in the heart. The final repetition suggests that remembering remains active in the present: the past survives because feeling continues to hold it.
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