Poet's Epitaph

Poet's Epitaph - meaning Summary

Truths in a Lying Life

The poem presents a short, paradoxical struggle: a man attempts to sing in order to avoid remembering his "true life of lies," while simultaneously trying to recall the version of his life that has been lived as truth through deception. It compresses a crisis of identity and memory into a few lines, suggesting that selfhood is shaped by the stories we tell and the lies that become familiar as truth.