This 3 sentence summary captures the key points of the poem:
Sleep will not come for the speaker as they count back over past mistakes and images of things left behind, leaving them no longer well. They count forward to a conclusion of lost dignity and medicated pain, with so much left undone and the undoing of too many things. The poem reflects on regret, loss, and the passage of time through counting both backwards over past errors and forwards towards an uncertain future.
This 3 sentence summary captures the key points of the poem:
Sleep will not come for the speaker as they count back over past mistakes and images of things left behind, leaving them no longer well. They count forward to a conclusion of lost dignity and medicated pain, with so much left undone and the undoing of too many things. The poem reflects on regret, loss, and the passage of time through counting both backwards over past errors and forwards towards an uncertain future.
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This 3 sentence summary captures the key points of the poem:
Sleep will not come for the speaker as they count back over past mistakes and images of things left behind, leaving them no longer well. They count forward to a conclusion of lost dignity and medicated pain, with so much left undone and the undoing of too many things. The poem reflects on regret, loss, and the passage of time through counting both backwards over past errors and forwards towards an uncertain future.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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Of thoughts as black As the inside of this night When I count back Over mistakes rewired as images Of things long done and left behind.
And now I am no longer well
And count forward time remaining To its logical conclusion Of dignity lost and medicated pain Leaving as a memory So much undone And the undoing of too many.