The Weary One
The Weary One - meaning Summary
Isolation Amid Modern Crowds
The poem sketches a solitary, rootless figure alienated in modern life. He is described as weary, hesitant, and hybrid, unable to find a place among crowded restaurants, angular buildings, or the immutable stone of the city. Longing to leave yet unsure where to go, he carries sorrow back to his native land, returning to familiar agonies and seasonal indecision rather than finding resolution or belonging.
Read Complete AnalysesThe weary one, orphan of the masses, the self, the crushed one, the one made of concrete, the one without a country in crowded restaurants, he who wanted to go far away, always farther away, didn't know what to do there, whether he wanted or didn't want to leave or remain on the island, the hesitant one, the hybrid, entangled in himself, had no place here: the straight-angled stone, the infinite look of the granite prism, the circular solitude all banished him: he went somewhere else with his sorrows, he returned to the agony of his native land, to his indecisions, of winter and summer.
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