3 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2021
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
This hit as the speaker is tired of the ennui and he was wishing he was a simple creature that lives on the bottom of the ocean, so he wouldn't be consumed by these kind of thoughts.
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For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I feel here that the speaker knows his time is running out and he feels the passage of time. Maybe his life is pretty much the same day to day so that's why he says I have known them all already.
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To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)
To me this poem is filled with melancholy and ennui, I feel like this is the speaker not living/enjoying the moment and thinking about when he is going to get older.
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