Remembering
Remembering - meaning Summary
Memory as Invasive Presence
The poem depicts intrusive, persistent memories as physical presences that creep up and probe the speaker. The speaker resists by denying and lying, but memory nonetheless performs a ritual that strips the speaker’s soul, leaving emotional numbness and hopelessness. The language compresses inner conflict into a brief scene of invasion and powerless endurance, exploring how recollection can wound despite conscious attempts to suppress it.
Read Complete AnalysesSoft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies. Mushlike memories perform a ritual on my lips I lie in stolid hopelessness and they lay my soul in strips.
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