Pensive and Faltering
Pensive and Faltering - meaning Summary
Voice Between Life and Death
The speaker describes their language as "pensive and faltering," addressing the dead through writing while asserting that the dead are the truly living. This short lyric reverses expected roles: the poet feels like an apparition and the subjects of memory possess a stronger reality. The poem centers on uneasy identity and the act of writing as an encounter with persistent, living presence beyond physical life.
Read Complete AnalysesPENSIVE and faltering, The words, the dead, I write; For living are the Dead; (Haply the only living, only real, And I the apparition—I the spectre.) 5
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