I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; 5
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; 10
And e'en the dearest—that I loved the best—
Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil'd or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God, 15
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.
Speaker/Diction: The speaker here is trying to convey a sad, depressed feeling.
He does a good job of it too. The poem is slow paced which helps you think about what
the speaker is trying to say.
Imagery: In the jast line of the poem i cans see clearly a man laying in a
field looking up at a open blue sky. In line seven i see a person in a pitch black abyss of
a room listening to all of the insults of his life. It's very different from the first image I
described.
Language: Similes: Line 2 and 5. In line two he is comparing himself to a forgotten
memory. In line 5 he compared his woes to shades of love. Apostrophies: In line two the speaker refers
to his friends, who aren't present.
Meaning: The meaning of this poem is that you can't let your life pass you by. The at the end of the
the last line portrays the speaker slowing down to enjoy things more as opposed to the beginning
where his friends forget him because he is like a ghost or a memory, not really there.
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