I Have Started to Say
I Have Started to Say - meaning Summary
Facing Mortality in Plain Terms
The speaker confronts the sudden, disorienting awareness of time passed and a shrinking future. Recounting decades of life feels breathless and vertiginous, evoked as falling through an empty sky. After that vertigo, the remaining future is starkly narrowed: only deaths remain, including the speaker’s, with their sequence and manner still unknown. The poem calmly frames mortality as the last, unavoidable content of life.
Read Complete AnalysesI have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. It makes me breathless It's like falling and recovering In huge gesturing loops Through an empty sky. All that's left to happen Is some deaths (my own included). Their order, and their manner, Remain to be learnt.
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