Telling You All
Telling You All - meaning Summary
Silence and Unexpected Self-discovery
The poem contrasts the impossibility or futility of fully "telling" with the quieter possibility of change through shared silence. Biblical paradoxes—how good can harm and misfortune can be good—frame an invitation to let silence open newness. In the evening a persistent memory or curiosity pauses a man before a mirror; his absorbed self-confrontation quietly shifts him elsewhere, suggesting inner transformation without explicit narration.
Read Complete AnalysesTelling you all would take too long. Besides, we read in the Bible how the good is harmful and how misfortune is good. Let's invite something new by unifying our silences; if, then and there, we advance, we'll know it soon enough. And yet towards evening, when his memory is persistent, one belated curiousity stops him before the mirror. We don't know if he is frightened. But he stays, he is engrossed, and, facing his reflection, transports himself somewhere else.
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