Poetry Explication “Red Shift”

In the poem Red Shift, the poet “Ted Berrigan” suggests that the lift is alone, gloomy and melancholy. In the poem, I walked in the winter streetscape alone. It was a cold night. Until I was 43 I didn’t have love children money and so on. He asked himself that who never leave him. The answer is no people never leave him. He asked himself that when will he die also. But his thought was very contradiction. The last sentence means he was very sad at that time.

At the beginning, it said he was in a street. Then the street was looking for somebody. It means that there was no more people in the street. The lightness was heavy to him. I think the lightness means the tomorrow. The life was difficult to him.

In the middle, it said that he didn’t have love, children, money and so on. In almost 20 years, he did nothing. But the world is also moving. The sun always come up in the east. He thought that no one had never leave him.

At the end, he asked himself when he will die. But he said he will never die, he never go away. He wanted to changed someone’s life and his life. The last two sentences mean that he wanted die.