Monologue at 3 Am
Monologue at 3 Am - meaning Summary
Isolation and Manic Despair
The poem presents a speaker awake at 3 AM wrestling with violent impulses and a paralysing mute despair. Imagery of physical rupture and blood contrasts with domestic details to heighten emotional urgency. The speaker prefers dramatic self-destruction to the slow, hollow pain of missed departures and unspoken farewells. It sketches a moment of isolation, wounded pride, and the refusal to accept being exiled from a personal "kingdom."
Read Complete AnalysesBetter that every fiber crack and fury make head, blood drenching vivid couch, carpet, floor and the snake-figured almanac vouching you are a million green counties from here, than to sit mute, twitching so under prickling stars, with stare, with curse blackening the time goodbyes were said, trains let go, and I, great magnanimous fool, thus wrenched from my one kingdom.
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